Incidence rates of different cancers have been calculated for the population of Kyadondo county (Kampala; Uganda) for four time periods (1960-1966; 1967-1971; 1991-1994; 1995-1997); spanning 38 years in total. The period coincides with marked social and lifestyle changes and with the emergence of the AID...
The AIDS epidemic has passed its peak in Uganda; with possible consequences for the risk of cancers related to infectious agents. Objective: To compare the incidence of cancers linked to infections with HIV; before the AIDS epidemic (the 1960s); at its high point (the early 1990s) when HIV - seroprevalen...
It is estimated that 3 million children under the age of 15 years have been infected with HIV world wide. The prevalence of HIV infection in Uganda ranges between 5and 10and the infection in children accounts for about 10of all infections. Mother to child transmission (MTCT) of the virus i.e. during preg...
"Uganda now boasts of a 50 percent decline in HIV/AIDS prevalence among women attending antenatal clinics; the Commissioner Health Services (Community Health) at the Ministry of health has said. Dr. Sam Okware said the HIV cases that were being recorded at various antenatal clinics over the last few year...
Este Diploma aprova as normas de organizacao do Servico Nacional para o atendimento e tratamento de pessoas vivendo com HIV/SIDA e os principios orientadores para o tratamento de doentes com infeccao pelo HIV/SIDA e os respectivos guias tecnicos...
L'abces intra-medullaire (A.I.M) est une etiologie rare et grave de compression medullaire. Decrite en 1830 par HART; seuls 82 cas ont ete rapportes dans la litterature et dans un cas; il etait associe a une infection au VIH. Dans cette etude; les auteurs rapportent l'observation clinique d'un senegalais...
A partir d'une etude retrospective de 93 cas de neurosida colliges sur une periode de 11 ans (1987-1997); les auteurs evaluent la seroprevalence de l'infection retrovirale dans le Service de Neurologie de l'Hopital de Fann (Dakar; Senegal); etudient les facteurs socio-demographiques et determinent les pr...
Adjunctive immunotherapy with heat-killed Mycobacterium vaccae was studied in a randomized; placebo-controlled trial of 120 non-human immunodeficiency virus-infected adults with newly diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis. Patients were randomised to a single dose of M.vaccae or placebo 1 week after beginning...
