A Comparison of Women With and Without Bisexual Experiences In the United States, an increasing proportion of reported AIDS cases occur among women, who represented 16% of all AIDS cases in 1997. AIDS in women is usually attributed to heterosexual contact or injection drug use, and heterosexually acquired HIV is increasing more rapidly among women [...]
INTRODUCTION Managed care appears to be a reality of care delivery in the 1990s. This has had a substantial impact on health care providers and academic medical centers, and is likely to have an even greater impact during the next several years. The Johns Hopkins HIV Care Program was founded in 1983 and has subsequently [...]
A comparison of breast cancer tumor characteristics and clinical outcomes between African-American and white women suggests that tumor differences may have a biologic cause according to a recent study published in Cancer. Elmore et al studied 400 women (100 black and 300 white) who had received an initial diagnosis of breast cancer between January 1985 [...]
Data recently reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that southern states (Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia) account for the highest proportion of reported acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) cases in 1997 (34%). This [...]
Universal HIV Screening at a Major Metropolitan ТВ Clinic: HIV Prevalence and High-Risk Behaviors Among ТВ Patients Objectives. This study assessed the outcome of implementing a policy of universal screening of patients with tuberculosis (ТВ) for HIV infection at a major metropolitan public health ТВ clinic. Methods. HIV serologic testing was completed on 768 (93%) [...]
INTRODUCTION The nervous system is affected not only by opportunistic infections but also directly or indirectly by HIV itself. Consequently, neurological complications have been described in patients with AIDS, and these constitute the initial manifestations in 7-20% of patients with asymptomatic HIV infection. This prevalence increases to 39-70% in symptomatic HIV infection. canadian antibiotics The [...]
HIV/AIDS and the Black Church: What Are the Barriers to Prevention Services? INTRODUCTION The HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to have a devastating impact on the black community in the United States. Although blacks make up approximately 12% of the U.S. population, they accounted for half of all new HIV infections reported in 2003. In Rhode Island, [...]
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