past present and future research use

... integrating TB and HIV care in primary healthcare clinics singled out high service loads at both the TB and HIV entry points, duplication of services and underutilization of staff, and TB and HIV services ... little research has sought to identify and understand barriers and facilitators to TB patients’ participation in HCT from the perspective of community health workers (i.e., lay HIV counselors and ... jurisdiction Group discussions and individual interviews Open- and closed-ended questions were used both during the group discussions with lay counselors and DOT supporters and the semistructured interviews...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... HIV/AIDS and Health Research Programme Nomvo Dwadwa-Henda, MA Chief Researcher (Doctoral Research Trainee) Behavioural and Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Section Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health Research ... Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health Research Programme Thabile Ketye, MA Senior Researcher Epidemiology, Strategic Research and Health Policy Section Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health Research Programme ... African males and females reported significantly higher use of condoms (46.0% and 49.8% respectively) than did white and coloured males (23.8% and 23.3% respectively) and white and coloured females...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... of randomized trials Statistical methods To assess the event-free survival, we used the KaplanMeier method and the Log-rank test was used to test for the statistical significance We also used ... Authors' contributions DJ, AN and BL designed the study DJ recruited and followed the patients DJ and BL analyzed the data DJ, BL and AN drafted the manuscript and approved the final version ... tuberculosis incidence rates in the HAART and in the preHAART cohort were 2.4 and 9.7 per 100 PYO, respectively [16] and compare well with our corresponding rates of 3.7 and 11.1 per 100 PYO With a longer...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... poly-drug abuse in intravenous drug users in Guangdong Province South China Journal of Preventive Medicine 2004, 30:8-11 Lu L, Fang Y, Wang X: Drug abuse in China: Past, Present and Future Cell ... 2008, (2) harm reduction intervention studies among drug users in mainland China and (3) related government policies on illicit drug abuse and HIV intervention programs Relevant intervention studies ... EBSCO and Google Scholar The combinations of key words used to identify relevant articles included: China, HIV, AIDS, drug use, narcotic control, incarceration, voluntary counseling and testing and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... due to staff illnesses and deaths, higher health insurance premiums and low morale [8] In addition, household demand for goods and services may decline due to lower income and levels of consumption, ... stability and economic growth, and greater public access to information and advocacy, inequitable access to treatment and prevention persists While challenges experienced by households and communities ... health, and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, by 2015 [14] Many international organizations have been set up to assist in funding and implementing HIV prevention and care programmes and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... disease (HD)) is presented in Fig 2a, 2b and Table Figure Northern blot analysis of the transcription levels of the set, ND4, and SMG-1 genes in human spontaneous lymphomas and normal B- and Tlymphocytes ... normal human T-lymphocytes and the Jurkat T-cell line Expression of set, SMG-1, and ND4 was unchanged, and pub and a-myb were not transcribed in normal human T-lymphocytes and the Jurkat cells (data ... HIV-associated and monkey SIV-associated lymphomas and seemed to be common for virus-specific lymphomagenesis in human and monkey Table Selected human HIV-associated lymphomas h1 and h2 genes overexpressed...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 11:08

... that PEPFAR funds be used for the “prevention, treatment, and control of, and research on, HIV/AIDS.” Therefore, any use of PEPFAR funds in the context of PMTCT, pediatric HIV and MNCH must have ... sanitation and hand-washing with soap ● Malaria IPT and access to malaria control programs and ITNs ● Nutrition assessment, counseling and support, including micronutrient supplementation and deworming ... and testing for partner and other children with referral to care and treatment for positives and Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention interventions for discordant couples ● Psychological and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 19:20

... in-service and pre-service training for providers II Rights, Policies and Services i) Rights While the two major topics – “human rights and advocacy” and “SRH services and programmes and policies” ... moods and motherhood's joy and love your child… ’You and your husband needs to go to the HIV/AIDS-family counsellor who will know how to convince your husband to be flexible with your idea and ... women are committed to expanding their influence within communities, and on policies and programmes, through advocacy, research and more central roles in decision-making and educational fora 28...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20

... residues, residues 79 and 80, and Asp25, respectively Mutation to smaller side chains caused loss of internal hydrophobic interactions in the PRI50V and PRI54V structures PRI84V, PRV32I and PRI50V showed ... wavelengths of 340 and 420 nm for excitation and emission Data analysis used the program sigmaplot 9.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) Km and kcat values were obtained by standard data fitting with ... sodium acetate, pH 4.6 and 0.67 m sodium chloride PRI54V–APV and PRI84V–APV crystals were grown from 0.1 m sodium acetate, pH 5.4 and 4.0, respectively, and 0.13 m sodium iodide, and PRL90M–APV crystals...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20

... who focus on both maternal and child health and sexual and reproductive health and other UN agencies like UNICEF and UNIFEM) limits their overall effectiveness • In Uganda fewer than half of the ... global guidelines and latest research WHO and UNICEF should support this process and also regularly assess implementation of these guidelines in the field and consistently and publicly release ... HIV-related stigma and discrimination and providing support (including nutrition and clothes) to children infected with and affected by HIV Impact of violence and stigma HIV-related stigma and discrimination...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 13:20

... edu/gatesinstitute/CR/FP-HIVPresentationsN Pullum T, Cleland J, Shah I Consensus, power and trust in the use of family planning and condoms by couples in Eastern and Southern Africa Paper presented at IUSSP ... condom use in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia have generally led to increased condom use, mostly in commercial and casual sex, while levels of condom use are lower as the degree of intimacy and stability ... HIV and maternal and child health and family planning departments and programmes was identified Broader participation in policy development and review processes of people living with HIV and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 17:20

... 0.1 and 0.4 mM was added to liposomes (66 lM of lipid) containing N-NBD-PtdEth and N-Rh-PtdEth at time 0, and the fluorescence of N-NBD-PtdEth was measured and normalized to a scale where 0% representing ... CD4-his and CCR5-myc-his and reconstitution by the protocol worked out for CCR5-myc-his S1, S2 and S3 represent the three consecutive supernatants obtained after ultracentrifugation, and PL the ... buffer and analysed by Western blot with the anti-myc Ig Besides the 38 kDa band corresponding to CCR5-myc-his which is present in lane a, the heavy and light chains of the anti-CD4 Ig (50 and 25...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 09:20

... 2007 and 2009 rounds antenatal HIV surveillance report published by the Federal Ministry of Health of Ethiopia and Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research and from AIDS in Ethiopia fifth and sixth ... programme were 6.2% and 4.5% and from antenatal surveillance 6.1 and 5.5% in 2008 and 2009 respectively Conclusions There were consistent HIV prevalence estimates from PMTCT programme and from antenatal ... prevalence and to model incidence rates [1-6] It has also been used to direct efforts towards HIV/AIDS prevention and control in the absence of reliable data for HIV/AIDS programme monitoring and evaluation...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... programme experience and Gender, Culture and Rights 117 Interventions linking gender relations and violence with reproductive health and HIV: rationale, effectiveness and gaps research on how to ... gender relations and violence with reproductive health and HIV: rationale, effectiveness and gaps doing, and share experiences and lessons learnt in successful strategies Our understanding of the ... Culture and Rights 121 Interventions linking gender relations and violence with reproductive health and HIV: rationale, effectiveness and gaps Reproductive Health’, paper presented at AWID and USAID...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... ) and no peptide (*)] IN strand-transfer activity was measured as described previously [58] and in Experimental procedures The Km and Vmax values for each IN peptide ratio were calculated and ... the RevIN interaction [55,5863] and following the use of a Rev-derived peptide library [58] With the use of a yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) system and a random peptide library, ve other IN-interacting ... activity was measured as described previously [77] and in Experimental procedures The Km and Vmax values for each IN peptide ratio were calculated and are presented in Table S1 (t-test, P < 0.01) On...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21

... Cc and Od2 atoms of Asp25 in PR and PRV82A, and both the Od atoms of Asp25¢ in PRL90M, exhibited large anisotropy This anisotropy probably represents different states of charge distribution and/ or ... at the termini and the variable surface loops of residues 16–18, 37–41, and 67– 69 of both subunits in all structures, except for the larger values at 50–52 and 51¢)54¢ in PR, and 80–81 in PRL90M ... relatively high B factors and anisotropic density This anisotropy could be caused by the crystal ˚ lattice because close van der Waals contacts (% 3.5 A) are observed between Pro81 and symmetry related...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:20

... figure, and degassed The dialysis buffer was used for baseline scans and was present as a reference buffer for the protein scans The system was allowed to equilibrate at °C for 15 min, and temperatures ... has been evaluated and will be reported elsewhere Acknowledgements We thank the National Funds for Scientific Research of Belgium (FNRS), where B C is a research fellow and R B a research director ... analysis of gp160 and gp41(34–170) See the Materials and methods for further information (A) Both proteins are glycosylated Proteins were analyzed at pH 2.8, 3.4 and 4.0 in 50 mM formate and adjusted...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 13:20

... planning and mother and child health, and preventive medicine centres, including HIV testing sites The research team also visited commune health stations in the district Details are presented ... postnatal wards, outpatient and inpatient clinics for ARV and OI facilities, and laboratories The interviewers were four trained public health and social science researchers Institutional ethical ... medical students and 48% of lecturers recapped used needles by hand, while two thirds always cleaned their hands with antiseptic after contact with blood Sixty percent of medical students and 37% of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... 1G5 [11], SupT1 [12], and GHOST X4/R5 [13] cells were obtained from the HIV AIDS Research and Reference Reagent Program, Division of AIDS, NIAID, NIH, and were cultured and maintained as specified ... obtained from HIV AIDS Research and Reference Reagent Program Envelope expression deficient and luciferase positive pNL4-3.HSA.R+.E- was obtained from Dr Nathaniel Landau [16,17], and was pseudotyped ... CT, and YL performed the experiments 16 Acknowledgements We wish to thank K Thornber and T Havens for translation of Japanese Sargassum literature, and Dr Carlos de Noronha for discussion and useful...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20