BACKGROUND Sub-Saharan Africa has a high rate of HIV infection, most of which is attributable to heterosexual transmission. Few attempts have been made to assess the extent of HIV transmission within marriages, and HIV-prevention efforts remain focused on abstinence and non-marital sex. We aimed to estimate the proportion of heterosexual transmission of HIV which occurs within married or cohabi...

The own-children method of fertility estimation tracks temporal changes in fertility patterns. We revisit the Kenyan fertility transition by applying the method to 1979, 1989 and 1999 censuses, and 1989, 1993, 1998 and 2003 Demographic and Health Surveys data. The method's ability to provide yearly fertility rates for periods preceding each data source adds enormous knowledge to fertility patte...

Objectives: Existing evidence in sub-Saharan Africa indicates that less than 40% of people living with HIV are aware of their status. HIV testing and counselling (HTC) is one of the key national strategies for HIV prevention but rural-urban inequalities exist in the uptake of this service. The aim of this study was to determine the factors associated with the uptake of HIV testing and counselli...

introduction: it seems that demographic and clinical features of patients referred for myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (mps) is different among populations and healthcare settings. the purpose of the current study is to evaluate the clinical features and risk factors of patients referred for myocardial perfusion scintigraphy to a military hospital. methods: as a cross-sectional study, the cli...

The identification of the characteristics that have an influence on the vaccination coverage of children and the determination of the pattern of such influence are very important since the government can reschedule the policy to immunize each and every child. This paper examines the factors that manipulate the vaccination coverage in terms of five major vaccines using the Bangladesh Demographic...