Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) was first described 30 years ago in a report from the US Centers for Disease Control. Two years later the causative virus was identified and afterwards named the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This article reviews the progress made in the three decades since the recognition of AIDS and the discovery of HIV, with respect to the virus, the infected ...

Background: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is one of the greatest social health problems in many communities in the twenty-first century. Methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) could decrease HIV infection among injection drug users (IDU). The main aim of this paper was to determine the cost-effectiveness of the governmental MMT program to prevent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) i...

In an in vitro assay employing reconstituted nuclei, importin 7 (IPO7) has been implicated in nuclear translocation of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) cDNA. Using RNA interference technology, we inhibited expression of IPO7 by 80 to 95% in primary macrophages and in HeLa cells and monitored their ability to support HIV-1 and simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) cDNA synthesis, nuclea...

background and aims: hiv is spreading rapidly among people word wide. infection with this virus leads to immune suppression and finally acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids).early hiv detection is depended on antibody screening against virus by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (elisa).some confirmatory tests such as western blot and recombinant immunobloting assay (riba), are used to veri...

results: the mean age of participants in the experimental and control groups were 33.31 ± 7.47 and 34.38 ± 11.29 years, respectively. in the wright tube test for the hiv+ group, 71 individuals (79.8%) did not have an antibody against brucella spp., while 18 patients (20.2%) were positive for the antibody. according to the results of wright tube test for the control group, 63 (12.5%) participant...

After a brief discussion of the nature of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) disease process and its consequences, the article considers implications for the ear and hearing. One of the newest etiologic considerations for audiologists is pediatric autoimmune deficiency syndrome (PAIDS). Babies born to HIV-AIDS-positive mothers, and children who hav...

Drug abuse and related disorders are a global public health crisis affecting millions, but to date, limited treatment options available. Abused drugs include not opioids, cocaine, nicotine, methamphetamine, alcohol. human immunodeficiency virus-1/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV-1/AIDS) inextricably linked. Extensive research has been done understand the effect of prolonged drug use on ...

conclusions the prevalence of mental disorders among the hiv-positive patients in bandar abbas city, iran, was high. the findings of this study demonstrate the need for more attention to improve mental health status of individuals with hiv/aids and further research on the mental health status of hiv-positive patients. background acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids) is a fatal disease that...

This is a rare case of new onset Kaposi sarcoma in a man infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and receiving antiretroviral treatment since primary HIV infection, with normal CD4(+) cell count and suppressed viral load. The presentation questions the general understanding of Kaposi sarcoma as an acquired immune deficiency syndrome-defining disease occurring predominantly in severely ...