This dissertation is an analysis of the political economy of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. This dissertation traces Nigerian democratic imaginaries and shows their intertwined connections to national and international AIDS policies, constructions of rights, and the production of therapeu…
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A series of prodrugs of zidovudine (AZT) and alovudine (FLT) has been synthesized in an effort to enhance their anti-HIV-1 activity, duration of action, lipophilicity, uptake by HIV-1 infected cells, delivery to the central nervous system and liver, and plasma half-life. Some of…
This study examines the role of culture in the development, content, and implementation of Bahrain's HIV/AIDS educational programs. It presents some of the conflicts inherent in developing and implementing HIV/AIDS education programs for a traditional Islamic country. Physicians…
This study investigated the knowledge of and attitudes toward HIV/AIDS among tenth grade high school students, and to compare the knowledge and attitudes between males-females, rural-urban students, and students-dropouts in West Java province, Indonesia. Two hundred sixty respon…
This dissertation portrays transformations in the social experience of contemporary Ethiopian-Israelis, and represents what is at stake for them in particular social and political encounters. Significant among these have been regular contestations with the religious, medical, an…
Equine Infectious Anemia Virus (EIAV) is a lentivirus closely related to Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Thrombocytopenia is a consistent and early hematological abnormality in horses acutely infected with EIAV. As with HIV, multifactorial mechanisms, including immune-mediat…
In 1993, despite the lack of evidential epidemiological data, the Malaysian Ministry of Health designated factories high-risk settings for AIDS. In 1995, the Malaysian delegation at an Asia Regional Conference on Women and AIDS advocated intensive HIV prevention activities among…
Objective. To study sexual network patterns and factors that influence the sexual networking among male groups in Indonesia and to determine to what extent do the patterns of sexual networking or bridging behavior explain the low level of HIV/AIDS in Indonesia. Design. Cross-sec…
Après plus d'une décennie d'application de la politique de population adoptée en 1988 par le gouvernement du Sénégal, la fécondité reste élevée dans la région de Tambacounda et conséquemment la fréquence des grossesses à risque. Il va de soi que ce sont les femmes et les enfants…
Epidemiological studies have shown that ulcerative sexually transmitted infections (STIs) enhance sexual transmission of HIV. The impact of non-ulcerative genital infections is not as clear. In this thesis, we proposed to investigate the biological impact of non-ulcerative, infl…
Nous avons réalisé une étude pour déterminer la séroprévalence du virus de l'immunodéficience humaine (VIH), de Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG), de Chlamydia trachomatis (CT), et pour explorer les comportements sexuels des travailleuses du sexe (TS), de leurs partenaires sexuels paya…
Though the AIDS epidemic has been spreading through sub-Saharan Africa for over 20 years, HIV prevalence rates in West Africa have augmented much more slowly than rates in East and Southern Africa. This research explores the question of whether differences in HIV prevalence rate…
Using Ethiopia's 2000 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), the 1998 Welfare Monitoring Survey, and the 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia, I systematically examined three issues: HIV/AIDS knowledge, AIDS-related attitudes and condom use. I distinguish different compo…
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…
The present study examined, using a cross-sectional survey design the relative influence of the family, peers, media, the school as well as personal knowledge and beliefs on the risk behaviors of adolescents in Nigeria (a country which from many indicators, still has a window of…
Infection of immune cells with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) induces dysregulation of cytokines which may play a vital role in HIV pathogenesis. I analyzed the expression of Th1 (interferon-γ, (IFN-γ)\rbrack and Th2 (interleukin-4 (IL-4), IL-10) type cytokines in unstimulat…
Adverse reactions to sulfonamides were initially described more than 50 years ago. It is not yet clear whether these side effects are due to immunological reactions or drug toxicity. More than 50% of AIDS patients develop adverse reactions to sulfamethoxazole, a sulfonamide drug…
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 …