The present findings suggest a substantial minority of older HIV-infected white and African-American men may continue to engage in risk behaviors following diagnosis. Indeed, a disturbingly high proportion of men in each of the three groups reported some kind of unprotected sex since their diagnosis that could potentially transmit HIV infection to others, result coinfection [...]
Sample Characteristics
The subsample for the analyses reported here (N=59) consisted of 15 African-American heterosexual men (25%), 12 African-American gay/bisexual men (20%), and 32 white gay/bisexual men (54%). The men ranged in age from 50 to 68 years (M=56.42 years, SD=5.27 years). Sixty-two percent has less than a college education, and 37% a college degree or [...]
Based on our patient’s laboratory findings and culture reports, aseptic meningitis was diagnosed. However, his development of meningeal irritation during hospitalization, after his recovery and following a rechallenge of TMP/SMX, established that there might be a high probability that his disease process was due to TMP/SMX. When the protecting barriers of the brain, including the [...]
Measures
Demographic variables. Using standard demographic items, interviewers gathered data on participants’ gender, race/ethnicity, age, marital/partner status, living arrangements, educational attainment, and household income. Sexual orientation was assessed using a five-point Likert-type scale ranging from “completely heterosexual” (1) to “completely homosexual” (5). Only those identifying as completely heterosexual were categorized as heterosexual, with all others categorized [...]
Subjective Information
A 46-year-old African-American man with AIDS presented to the hospital with confusion, lethargy, headache and fever. The patient was doing fine until late that morning, when he took his medications consisting of tablet zidovudine + drug lamivudine + medication abacavir (Trizivir®), atazanavir (Reyataz®) and the newly prescribed thrice-weekly TMP/SMX (800/160 mg) for Pneumocystis carinii [...]
Participants
The analyses presented below were based on data from 59 late-middle-age or older men (age 50 or older) living with HIV/AIDS in New York City. This study represents a secondary analysis of data drawn from two concurrent qualitative studies (n=64, n=49) of late-middle-age and older adults living with HIV/AIDS. Eligibility in both samples was limited [...]
INTRODUCTION
Meningitis is an inflammation of the meninges and is usually caused by a viral or bacterial infection. Differentiation of the etiology of meningitis into aseptic and bacterial is very important because of the differences in the severity of illness, treatment modalities and prognostic implications. Encephalitis is an inflammation of the brain in response to an [...]
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