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Background Antiretroviral therapy (ART) improves patients' health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Defaulting from ART has detrimental consequences, including the development of viral resistance, treatment failure and increased risks of disease progression. Little is known about the quality of life of ART defaulters and reasons for discontinuing their ART. Objectives This study sought to meas...

BACKGROUND Antiretroviral therapy (ART) recently became available in the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). Survival benefits and budgetary implications associated with universal access to ART have not been examined in the Caribbean. METHODS Using a state-transition simulation model of HIV with regional data, we projected survival, cost, and cost-effectiveness of treating an HIV...

*BONIPHACE IDINDILI1,2,3*, BONIPHACE JULLU3, FERDINAND MUGUSI4 and MARCEL TANNER1 1Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Socinstrasse 57, 4002 Basel, Switzerland 2Tumbi Region Hospital, P.O Box 30041 Kibaha, Tanzania 3Ifakara Health Institute, P.O Box 53 Ifakara, Tanzania 4Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, P.O Box 65000, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania __________________________...

calling tradition is among clearest areas which can be found in modern dramatic literary and artistic texts.  the ancient hero is quite well known  and since long has  found his place in literature and art of different nations especially in legends, epics, folk tales, oral literature and dramatic texts such that it was in a battle with other elements and defeated them. abou khalil alqabbani, th...

Little research has been conducted on how pre-existing indigenous community resources, especially social networks, affect the success of externally imposed HIV interventions. Antiretroviral treatment (ART), an externally initiated biomedical intervention, is being rolled out across sub-Saharan Africa. Understanding the ways in which community networks are working to facilitate optimal ART acces...