extent of research utilization

... a 2008 study of 340 clinics in six of the poorest districts across four of the nine provinces: “The number of doctors was only 7% of that required, and while the total number of professional nurses ... the delivery of HCT services might improve acceptance rates The research study was approved by the Free State Department of Health and the Committee for Research Ethics, Faculty of the Humanities, ... question of how TB patients’ uptake of HCT services could be improved: Improve the quality of training on TB and HIV that professional nurses receive There should be ongoing training of lay counselors...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... Profile of respondents compared to the national profile of employees in the private security sector 28 Table 3.4 Profile of study participants from the private security firms vs national profile ... risk of HIV infection 72 Table 5.1 Profile of employer respondents 73 Table 5.2 Profile of employees by occupational category, population group and sex (N = 14 105) 75 Table 5.3 Profile of employees ... driving HIV/AIDS Professor Carel van Aardt, Economist, Bureau of Market Research, University of South Africa (UNISA) – Impact of HIV/AIDS and response by business Professor Geoffrey Setswe, Public...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... http://www.aidsrestherapy.com/content/3/1/10 of prolonged fever, history of easy fatigability, history of tuberculosis, and the WHO clinical stage were also assessed as possible predictors of tuberculosis We used the cut-off value of ... background of high disease burden and advanced disease stage could explain the high mortality rate of 15.4 per 100 PYO among our patients Since most of the deaths occurred within the first 12 weeks of ... (Hgb) in the study area, we used an arbitrary cut off value of 10 g/dl to define anaemia The cut off point for the TLC was 1200 cells/ml because of its clinical significance in starting HAART [25]...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... 13:57-68 State Council of People’s Republic of China: China’s action plan for reducing and preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS (2006-2010) Beijing: State Council of People’s Republic of China 2006 Grusky ... established to serve at least 50% of the IDU population by 2010 [34] Page of Results of harm reduction interventions and HIV prevention among drug users in China The results of the empirical studies [5,35-41] ... use of MMT decreased the frequency of IDU and criminal behaviors [37] Three needle related studies revealed a significant reduction of needle-sharing among drug users [40,41] and a decline of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... aspects of society The ramifications of an epidemic of this nature and scale will be felt long after incidence of the disease has peaked, predicted in the case of HIV to be in 2040 [12] By way of ... majority of those infected are women and girls Widespread wars and regional conflicts in Africa escalate, by orders of magnitude, the risk of rape of women and girls The low social status of women, ... headway Another issue of concern is that the focus of many of these programmes is on treatment rather than prevention of HIV Initiatives geared to increasing the delivery of treatment to developing...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... lymphomas A number of the genes detected in these experiments have not been previously associated with DLBCL of different origin A comparison of expression profiles of some of these genes with ... (capn4) and other (in case of lymphoma h1) and SMG-1, the gene of ribosomal protein S8 (in case of lymphoma h2), as well as several genes of unknown function (9 and in the case of lymphoma h1 and h2, ... demonstrated overexpression of the pub gene in the cells of all three SIV-associated monkey lymphomas as compared to B-lymphocytes Northern blot hybridization of a PCR-fragment of pub with RNA from...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 11:08

... Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV, Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health and Pediatric HIV Services Objectives of the Guidance Supporting the integration of Prevention of Mother ... and WHO, has committed to the goal of virtual elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV by 2015 These important goals have been adopted in the context of significant scientific advances ... Cost-effectiveness of rapid syphilis screening in prenatal HIV testing programs in Haiti Public Library of Science Medicine 2007; 4(5) e183 Rydzak CE, Goldie SJ Coste-effectiveness of rapid point -of- care...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 19:20

... Ukraine iii) Summary of Main Issues Raised The overarching issue - at the root of barriers to care, lack of services and low quality of existing care - was the high degree of stigma and discrimination ... improve the attitude of Africa's medical staff.’ The following story, from a contributor doing research in India, suggests that issues of compromised professionalism and lack of basic respect for ... Counselling services sensitive to the range of needs of HIV-positive women Improved quality of counselling came up quite often as a need in a range of contexts: preserving privacy and confidentiality,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20

... The Cd1 methyl of the Ile50 side chain forms C-HÆÆÆO interactions with the hydroxyl oxygen of Thr80¢ and carbonyl oxygen of Pro79¢, and the Cd1 of Ile50¢ interacts with the hydroxyl of Thr80 Mutation ... activity [36] These lines of evidence, taken together, strengthen the suggestion that loss of the C-HÆÆÆO interaction of residue 50 with the hydroxyl of Thr80, as well as loss of hydrophobic contacts ... increment of the width across the S1 ⁄ S1¢ pockets caused by binding of the big decahydroisoquinoline P1¢ group of SQV instead of the smaller P1¢ group in APV (Fig 4C) [12] The more rigid region of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20

... Transmission of HIV, WHO 2007 Overarching findings For this seventh edition of Missing the Target researchers identified important barriers standing in the way of the continuum of services needed ... of dying and in most need of treatment for their own health Their right to health is abridged in the absence of adequate care and treatment One of the clearest conclusions from this edition of ... relatively low level of utilization of ANC services (30 to 50 percent) The majority of births (78 percent) occur at home or outside medical facilities in which prevention of vertical transmission...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 13:20

... pharmacokinetics) Research studies should also address the issue of condom use among married and cohabiting women and men Documentation of ongoing experiences and operations research on provision of contraception, ... popcouncil.org/pdfs/horizons/ fpandpmtctrprt.pdf.2004 N 2004 Ministry of Health, Rwanda Evaluation of access to and utilization of prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) services in Rwanda Kigali7 ... know about the method often not offer it to women who would benefit from it.67 Current supply of both male and female condoms is highly inadequate.68 In particular, the supply of female condoms,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 17:20

... FI was calculated as FI ¼ [1 ) (number of cells/number of nuclei)] · 100 A minimum of 500 nuclei were counted for each assay Binding of a soluble version of the JR-FL gp120/gp41 to proteoliposomes ... modification One of the consequences of signalling is a down-modulation of the expression of CCR5 [38] CCR5-myc-his or wtCCR5 expressing cells were incubated at 37 °C for 30 with 10 nM of MIP-1a and ... step, two additions of 2.5–20 mg per mL for 45 to h were tested The final protocol involved a 4-h incubation with 0.5 mg of beads, followed by the addition of mg of beads, per mL of reconstitution...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 09:20

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... certain period in a year, lack of representation of private health facilities, sites are often urban biased and the sample sizes are often arguable Not being part of routine activity, costs associated ... number of first time antenatal attendees, number of revisit antenatal attendees, number of women who received pre-test HIV counselling, number of women who received HIV testing, number of women ... Ministry of Health; 2008 26 HAPCO/FMoH: Guidelines for Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Ethiopia Addis Ababa: Federal HIV/AIDS prevention and Control Office/Federal Ministry of...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... burden of responsibility for taking care of sick family and community members Lack of male involvement in pregnancy and antenatal care and in prevention of mother-tochild transmission (PMTCT) of ... socio-cultural context of, and factors influencing, the various forms of GBV, sexual abuse of children, definition of masculinity and femininity, and risky SRH behaviour and the effectiveness of the MAP ... probability of sustained involvement and sustained change In addition to limited knowledge of the effectiveness of interventions, there is little programming and research on how to reduce the risk of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... inhibitory activity of this group of peptides is attributable to their effect on the turnover number of IN, and suggest a different mode of action from that of the rst group The third group of peptides, ... dissociation of the IN multimer molecule [70] The break 320 point observed in several of the panels of Fig is the optimum point of the reaction, namely the ideal concentrations of DNA, peptide ... indicating enhancement of the ININ interaction However, an almost linear curve was observed in the presence of all of the inhibitory peptides (Fig 4), indicating eradication of the autocatalytic...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21

... isolates [2] One of the conformations of the side chain of Lys45 in PR forms hydrogen bonds with the Od2 of Asp30, which is expected to stabilize the flap The other conformation of Lys45 forms hydrogen ... O4 atom of indinavir formed hydrogen bond interactions with the amide and OD2 of Asp29¢, and interacted via water OB with the carbonyl oxygen of Gly27, the OD1 of Asp29¢ and the NE atom of Arg8 ... US Department of Energy, Division of Materials Sciences and Division of Chemical Sciences, under Contract No DE-AC0298CH10886 The research was supported, in part, by the Georgia Research Alliance,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:20

... plot of Tm and DHvH/DHcal, as a function of pH, is shown in Fig 3B Cooperative unfolding events at temperatures of > 100 °C are seen in the pH range of 1.0–4.0 The variation of Tm as a function of ... parameters of unfolding of the monomer are expected to be different from those of the trimer Trimer dissociation is bound to alter the ratio of DHvH/ DHcal, indicative of the content of the cooperatively ... Recombinant ectodomain of gp41 corresponding to amino acids 537–669 of the envelope protein of the LAI isolate (p03375) with a C-terminal extension of amino acids GGGGSHHHHHH For details of protein expression...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 13:20

... pregnant women, often because of their own fear or lack of knowledge, or because of high workloads and lack of staff [13,14] Inadequate health care delivery may be caused by a variety of factors, ... terminologies The transcripts of the semistructured interviews were coded, entered and analysed by means of N-VIVO software Table 2: Number of interviews by type of health staff Type of health staff National ... lack of confidentiality of HIV test results [4,12] Our previous studies on the experiences and views of women about the provision of PMTCT in Hanoi included criticisms about the quality of services...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... entry into cells consists of two distinct steps of 1) virus binding to the cellular receptor and coreceptor, which is followed by 2) fusion of the viral and cellular Page of (page number not for ... incubation of sCD4 together with Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Virology Journal 2008, 5:8 http://www.virologyj.com/content/5/1/8 Figure Inhibition of HIV-1 fusion Inhibition of HIV-1 ... potent inhibitor of HIV-1 infection, which at a concentration of mg/ml lowered viral infection by up to 80% in a variety of primary cells and cell lines, and for a prolonged period of time [2] To...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20