In the face of violence and discrimination, courageous people living with HIV/AIDS throughout India have built a national network to raise awareness of their concerns and contributions, improve care and support for HIV-positive people, and advocate for more enlightened, effective HIV/AIDS policies. . In the summer of 1998, the people of the city of Chennai witnessed one of the goriest human rights violations ever perpetrated against a person living with HIV in India.
Revista / Publicado em 12 de fevereiro de 2001
Training NGO leaders in prevention methods and mobilizing additional donor support are two approaches FHI is taking to help stem the skyrocketing HIV/AIDS epidemic in Russia. . Despite the heroic efforts of some small nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), Russia has one of the fastest growing HIV/AIDS epidemics in the world: An estimated 100 people a day, most between the ages of 20 and 30, were being diagnosed with in 2000 in Moscow and across the country.. Yet, according
Revista / Publicado em 12 de fevereiro de 2001
An HIV/AIDS theater program has spread throughout Kenya during the past five years, growing from 35 youth theater groups to more than 270 and reaching over 400,000 people with performances that stimulate thought-provoking discussions about the epidemic. . Above the low, monotonous hum of the fan from a bakery in Mwandoni, a low-income residential area in the Kenyan coastal town of Mombasa, the clear, youthful voice of a soloist cuts through the dusty neighborhood and
Revista / Publicado em 12 de fevereiro de 2001
Evidence that an inexpensive antiretroviral regimen can significantly reduce HIV transmission from mothers to their infants has raised hopes of saving millions of lives worldwide and prompted scientists and health officials to reconsider the international recommendations on such preventive therapy. Preliminary results of a study conducted in Uganda by members of the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HIVNET) showed that a potent and long-lasting drug, nevirapine, was 47 percent
Revista / Publicado em 13 de fevereiro de 2001
FHI’s behavioral surveillance surveys (BSS) have been recognized as a flexible tool for evaluating HIV/AIDS prevention interventions and an integral part of UNAIDS’ surveillance guidelines for national AIDS programs.. Thirty percent of Kenyan teenagers in schools in the city of Mombasa report that they have had sex with one or more partners, becoming sexually active at an average age of 15 for boys and 16 for girls. In Cambodia’s five provincial capitals, three out
Revista / Publicado em 13 de fevereiro de 2001
The announcement by five pharmaceutical companies that they will offer resource-constrained countries substantial discounts on antiretroviral drugs against HIV has the potential to improve access to these life-extending therapies. To date the cost of the powerful drugs that have reduced HIV-related deaths and disease in Western countries (about $US 10,000 to $20,000 a year) has priced them far out of the reach of the majority of people living with HIV/AIDS.. Even with hefty
Revista / Publicado em 12 de fevereiro de 2001
After gaining the trust of many of society’s "marginal people," an NGO refines its methods to promote changes in the drug injecting practices and sexual behaviors that fuel an explosive HIV/AIDS epidemic in Mykolaiv, Ukraine.. Mykolaiv’s nighttime streets are pitch-black beneath a thick canopy of trees -- the town council cannot afford street lighting. Neon-lit bars for the newly rich "new Ukrainians" make island of light between which cars cruise
Revista / Publicado em 13 de fevereiro de 2001
A highly participatory, carefully structured strategic planning process is involving Dominicans from all sectors of society and every part of the country in a community-based national response to HIV/AIDS. . Colonel Juan Luis Sierra, the leading military officer in the Dominican Republic’s Dajabon Province, did not want to spend three-and-a-half days at a planning workshop about HIV/AIDS. He didn’t believe AIDS was a problem in the Dominican Republic and saw no reason for an
Revista / Publicado em 12 de fevereiro de 2001
Anatomopathological changes of the heart in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Geanette Pozzan. Unitermos: HIV, Aids, coração, pericardite, endocardite, miocardite.. Uniterms: HIV, Aids, heart, pericarditis, myocarditis, endocarditis.. Resumo. A infecção pelo vírus da imunodeficiência humana (HIV) e a síndrome da imunodeficiência a ele relacionada (Aids) envolvem múltiplos órgãos, principalmente pulmões, cérebro, pele, tracto gastrointestinal, rins e coração. As lesões
Revista / Publicado em 23 de junho de 2000
Tuberculosis Diagnosis in HIV/AIDS Patients Antonio Carlos de Castro Toledo Jr.* Marco Antônio de Ávila Vitória ** Resumo A co-infecção tuberculose-HIV altera a história natural das duas doenças. O aumento da replicação do HIV secundário à infecção pelo Mycobacterium tuberculosis agrava a imunodeficência, o que, por sua vez, torna a tuberculose mais agressiva e de difícil diagnóstico. Com o aumento da epidemia do HIV, a sobreposição das duas doenças deve se tornar cada vez mais
Revista / Publicado em 10 de novembro de 2000
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