How resources are being used to fund the community response to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is of considerable interest to the donor community and governments. In the past decade, international funding for the HIV and AIDS res…
The HIV/AIDS disease in Senegal is characterized by a stable national prevalence rate around 1% since 1990, its concentration among vulnerable sub-groups and in certain geographic areas, and its essentially heterosexual mode of transmission. However, explanatory studies of risky…
Background . Although injection drug use emerged as the initial propellant of HIV in Central Asia, the epidemic may be verging on widespread diffusion through bridge populations to the general population. While HIV incidence appears to be increasing sharply, the absolute number …
This thesis presents a view on how the military forces should control HIV/AIDS infection. While the focus is Nigeria, the views canvassed apply to the military globally because of similarity in the nature of military forces and HIV/AIDS being a universal phenomenon. With unsafe …
This study demonstrates the relationship between HIV/AIDS and human security in Nigeria, focusing on three conceptual frameworks of human security namely economic security, family security and community institutions (that is the military and education sectors). I specifically ex…
The reactions of people toward persons living with AIDS have been studied from different theoretical perspectives. Most of these studies have been conducted in the United States and Western Europe. A small number of studies, however, have been conducted in developing countries. …
As rates of HIV/AIDS continue to rise among youth in sub-Saharan Africa, the need for behavioral intervention to reduce rates of HIV/AIDS infection is becoming increasingly evident, The present study examined the association between risk and/or protective factors and HIV-hazardo…
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) pose a threat to the health and well-being of populations worldwide. Sub-Saharan Africa has been particularly hard hit by the AIDS pandemic and poses many challenges to AIDS prevention prog…
This study examined predictors of HIV testing for 217 high-risk, low-income, heterosexual African American and Latina women. The women were recruited from a primary health care setting in the Bronx. The theoretical framework guiding the research was Protection Motivation Theory …
This thesis project was designed to investigate the phenotypic and genotypic variability of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) drug-naïve clade C reverse transcriptase (RT) and its potential impact in the development of resistance against inhibitors of RT. Five treatmen…
AIDS is currently the third leading cause of death for women ages 25-44 in the United States. In 1996, women accounted for 20% of all newly reported AIDS cases. Since 1981, a total of 573,800 adolescents and adults with AIDS were reported to the Centers For Disease Control and P…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between social support, coping with HIV, level of intimacy, and burnout in gay men who identify as being the primary caregiver of a partner living with AIDS. While a great deal of attention in the helping professions …
Understanding why some couples engage in unsafe sexual behaviors when one person is HIV infected and the other is HIV negative (i.e. serodiscordant) is important in reducing HIV infection. Within these serodiscordant couples the risk of HIV is defined clearly. Risk reduction cou…
An exploratory study was conducted to determine the level of knowledge of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and its resulting disease, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), among students at Udayana University, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. Purposive sampling was used and the…
This paper investigates women's HIV/AIDS vulnerability factors and presents a theoretical prevention education model for addressing the growing threat of women's HIV/AIDS infections in Yunnan, China. This need is analyzed theoretically through women's HIV/AIDS vulnerability and …
We conducted a cross-sectional screening study of HIV-1 and HIV-2, human papillomavirus (HPV), and cervical intraepithelial lesions (SIL) in previously unscreened women in an outpatient infectious disease clinic in Dakar, Senegal. In addition, we conducted a prospective study of…
In recent years there has been a worldwide recognition of the disparity of HIV treatment available in the West and in Sub-Saharan Africa. The West African nation of Senegal was early to implement measures that allowed for the distribution of highly effective anti-HIV therapy kno…
The purpose of this study was to explore Connecticut professional Social Workers' (i.e., Clinical Social Workers and School Social Workers) and Counselors' (i.e., Mental Health Counselors and School Counselors) attitudes toward persons with the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrom…
Health care workers have been known to carry into the workplace a variety of judgmental and negative attitudes towards their patients. In no other area of patient care has this issue been more pronounced as in the management of patients with AIDS. Health care workers have refuse…