In sub-Saharan Africa, gender inequality and power imbalances continue to place individuals at increased risk for HIV/AIDS. Prevention programs in Malawi are starting to consider the role of relationship power in couple-based interventions; however, no local measure of power exists to evaluate intervention effectiveness. This study developed a new measure of sexual relationship power for Malawi...

OBJECTIVE Animal studies showed that male subjects had lower activity of immune response to infections than female subjects, which may increase the risk of the development of tuberculosis in male population. This study intended to investigate the risk of incident tuberculosis in male and female adults in Taiwan. DESIGN This is a retrospective cohort study. SETTING The present analyses used ...

nowhere are the barriers to a functional health infrastructure more clearly on display than in the goma region of democratic republic of congo. kaboru et al. report poorly integrated services for hiv and tb in this war-torn region. priorities in conflict zones include provision of security, shelter, food, clean water and prevention of sexual violence. in goma, immediate health priorities includ...

As mentioned in chapter one according to Cangemi (1984:105) the ultimate aim of education and therefore educational management, school organization and educational provision, should be the self-actualization of the role player’s innate potential. Disruption in schooling, the spread of HIV/AIDS, sexual abuse of children inside and outside schools, gender inequality, dysfunctional families and th...

the number of sexual transmission of hiv is increasing globally. sexual and reproductive health (srh) issues and hiv/aids related problems are rooted in common grounds such as poverty, gender inequality, and social exclusion. as a result, international health organizations have suggested the integration of srh services with hiv/aids services as a strategy to control hiv and to improve people’s ...

Socioeconomic position is often determined by uncontrollable, structural factors, yet people from the United States tend to attribute wealth and poverty individual control. However, information about behavioural correlates of such beliefs across development relatively lacking. Thus, we examined adolescents' reasoning causes inequality in a sample 599 adolescents socioeconomically, ethnically, r...