September 2014

Importance of social media in engaging young people on Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevention

This paper dealt with the importance of social media in engaging young people on Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevention. The data used in this study, was obtained through a social media survey conducted among young unmarried tertiary graduates between the ages of 15 to 35 who are working in Abuja Nigeria and activities of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) on Facebook from 9 August, 2010 to 30...

Author(s): Roland Clement Abah, Toyin Aderibigbe and Ayoyinka Olubunmi

September 2014

Oral cytology in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV): An immune marker?

Low CD4 counts is currently considered to be one of the main indicators of the progression of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-induced immune depression, but few studies have analyzed its relationship to the presence of oral cytological changes. The aim of this cross sectional study was to analyze the relationship between total CD4 lymphocyte count and the occurrence of cytological changes. The present cross-sectional...

Author(s): Vaibhav Mahesh Jagad, Nandita Shenoy, John Ramapuram, Junaid Ahmed, Amitha Lewis and Srikant N.

September 2014

Tuberculosis treatment outcomes among tuberculosis/ human immunodeficiency co-infected cases treated under directly observed treatment of short course in Western Ethiopia

A five year (2009 to 2013) retrospective cohort study was conducted to assess the treatment outcome of tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency (HIV) co-infection patients from April to May, 2014 in six randomly selected health institutions providing Directly Observed Treatment, Short-Course (DOTS) program in Western Ethiopia. In the selected health institutions, sputum and blood samples were collected and processed...

Author(s): Eyasu Ejeta, Tadesse Birhanu and Tsedeke Wolde