Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses data from National Aids Control Organization, National Family Health Survey, and the Directorate of Economics and Statistics. Findings – This study highlights the problems facing women in deterring the spread of HIV/AIDS in India. The status and ...
HIV/AIDS is currently the eighth leading cause of death in Africa, accounting for almost five percent of all deaths in 2021. At that time, HIV/AIDS was not among the leading 20 causes of death in any other region in the world. In many countries around the world HIV/AIDS is no longer...
Locally developed systems in Africa, for example, have enabled patients to self-report using a “hand-scoring” system116. Other systems support community caregivers of people with cancer and HIV in India and African countries to collect self-reported patient outcomes using mHealth, providing data ...
Global HIV & AIDS statistics — fact sheet. Available from: https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/fact-sheet. Accessed 20 Jan 2022 Staveteig S, Croft TN, Kampa KT, Head SK. Reaching the ‘first 90’: gaps in coverage of HIV testing among people living with HIV in 16 African countries....
(Thailand, Myanmar, northeastern India, and southern Yunnan)2,3. Although HIV infection has been reported in all 31 mainland provinces, there is considerable variation in the transmission routes and infection rates. The epidemic began among IDUs in areas of Yunnan province bordering Myanmar, then ...
Geographic information system (Getis-Ord Gi* statistics) and spatial scan statistics (SaTScan) were used for exploratory and confirmatory spatial analyses respectively. Results The overall prevalence of HIV in Ethiopia unveiled inconsistent trends, with the majority of areas showing decreasing trends. Hot...
Awareness of and willingness to use pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among people who inject drugs and men who have sex with men in India: results from a multi-city cross-sectional survey. PLoS One. 2021;16(2):e0247352. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0247352 PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref...
Till Death Do Us Part: Marriage, HIV/AIDS and the Law in Zimbabwe Lying in Sub Saharan Africa, the epicenter of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Zimbabwe has grappled since 1985 to prevent and mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS. Statistics point out to one glaring factor- the disproportionate impact of...
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People living with HIV face a high risk of mental illness, especially depression. We do not yet know the precise neurobiological mechanisms underlying HIV-associated depression. Depression severity in the general population has been linked to acute and c