scholarly journals An evaluation of human immunodeficiency virus oral screening test awareness and preferences in the West region of Cameroon

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 254-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celine N. Nkenfou ◽  
Japhette T. Kembou ◽  
Appolinaire Djikeng ◽  
Irenee Domkam ◽  
Timoleon Tchuinkam
Keyword(s):  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Screening Test ◽  
The West ◽  
West Region ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Oral Screening

scholarly journals HIV infection in the west region of Pará

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. e38938
Author(s):  
Carla Beatriz Bezerra Melo ◽  
Jord Thyego Simplício De Lima ◽  
Juciele Faria Silva ◽  
Erek Fonseca Da Silva ◽  
João Guilherme Pontes Lima Assy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Viral Load ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
Opportunistic Infections ◽  
Western Region ◽  
Detectable Viral Load ◽  
The West ◽  
Reference Center ◽  
West Region ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus

Aims: knowledge of the patient’s profile, for the evaluation and suggested behaviors, promotes a favorable outcome. Thus, the objective of the study is to analyze the socioeconomic, clinical, and immunological characteristics of patients infected by the human immunodeficiency virus in the western region of the state of Pará.Methods: were analyzed 1966 medical records of patients whose first visit to a reference center, in the municipality of Santarém-PA, was between 1998 and 2018. Socioeconomic, clinical, and immunological information was collected from patient medical records. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics, adopting p <0.05.Results: there was a predominance of males (62.5%), aged 20-39 years (69.1%), elementary school (58.6%), single (57.3%), and employed (66.4%). Immunosuppression was present in 22% of patients and a viral load was detectable in 66%. Tuberculosis (37%) and toxoplasmosis (23%) predominated as opportunistic infections, and syphilis (62.6%) and human papillomavirus (HPV; 14%) as other infections.Conclusions: it is concluded that both opportunistic infections and other infections were present in 25-22% of the patients and that the presence of opportunistic infections favors the installation of another infection, or vice versa. Toxoplasmosis, HPV, and syphilis are positively associated with men, and toxoplasmosis and tuberculosis with age >35 years. Immunosuppression was shown to be positively associated with men and age >35 years, as well as favoring the onset of tuberculosis, toxoplasmosis, and detectable viral load.

scholarly journals Deadly Disease vs. Chronic Illness: Competing Understandings of HIV in the HIV Non-Disclosure Debate

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 24-42
Author(s):  
Erica Speakman ◽  
Dorothy Pawluch
Keyword(s):  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Hiv Positive ◽  
The West ◽  
Fundamental Nature ◽  
The Past ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Deadly Disease

Over the past several decades, understandings of what it means to have contracted the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have shifted so that an infection once viewed as deadly and ultimately terminal is now largely regarded as chronic and manageable, at least in the West. Yet, the shift has not been complete. There are arenas of discourse where understandings of what health implications HIV carries with it are contested. One such space is the debate concerning the appropriate response to cases of HIV non-disclosure, that is, situations where individuals who are HIV-positive do not disclose their health status to intimate partners. This paper examines the competing constructions of HIV found within this debate, particularly as it has unfolded in Canada. Those who oppose the criminalization of non-disclosure tend to construct HIV as an infection that is chronic and manageable for those who have contracted it, not unlike diabetes. Those who support criminalization have mobilized a discourse that frames the infection as harmful and deadly. We use the case of the HIV non-disclosure debate to make the argument that representations of health conditions can become mired in larger social problems debates in ways that lead to contests over how to understand the fundamental nature of those conditions.

RAPID, EASY, AND ECONOMICAL SCREENING TEST FOR ANTIBODIES TO HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS

The Lancet ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 329 (8529) ◽  
pp. 361-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
JamesR. Carlson ◽  
JoannL. Yee ◽  
E.John Watson-Williams ◽  
MyraB. Jennings ◽  
SteveC. Mertens ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Screening Test ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus
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