scholarly journals Prevalence of HIV infection and uptake of HIV/AIDS services among fisherfolk in landing Islands of Lake Victoria, north western Tanzania

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Kapesa ◽  
Namanya Basinda ◽  
Elias C. Nyanza ◽  
Martha F. Mushi ◽  
Ola Jahanpour ◽  
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2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-28
Author(s):  
Lyndall Ellingson

Current adolescent HIV infection rates support the need for early HIV/AIDS prevention education. This article describes a successful service-learning project in which undergraduate health education students developed and taught an elementaryschool HIV/AIDS prevention education curriculum that included a compassion component involving donation of teddy bears to community members affected with HIV/AIDS.


Author(s):  
Chandrashekhara Chandrashekhara ◽  
Sandeepkumar O

Children are innocent victims of HIV infection through vertical transmission. Children who are HIV positive, either through mother-to-child transmission or following sexual abuse, are often not told what could happen to them, and they will certainly be frightened when they experience symptoms.


2021 ◽  
Vol 05 (01) ◽  
pp. 65-74
Author(s):  
Thi To Trinh Huynh ◽  
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Ngoc Quang La ◽  
Thanh chung Nguyen

Research cross-sectional description of 170 men who have sex with men (MSM) in Tien Giang to describe the situation of HIV / AIDS infection and some factors related to HIV prevalence among men who have sex with men. gender. Research results from December 2019 to June 2020 show that the rate of HIV infection in MSM is 20.6%. Some factors related to HIV / AIDS prevalence are that an education level of upper secondary school or higher is 3.6 times more likely to be infected than those with lower secondary education ( OR = 3.64; CI = 1.42-9.35) and the baseline perception of non-HIV infection among subjects who are likely to be infected with HIV 6.49 times higher than the subjects of self-awareness potentially HIV infection (OR = 6.49; CI = 2.90-14.53). Communication among MSM should be strengthened. Key words: HIV/AIDS infection, Tien Giang, Associated factors


2014 ◽  
Vol 04 (05) ◽  
pp. 293-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sospatro E. Ngallaba ◽  
Daniel J. Makerere ◽  
Anthony Kapesa ◽  
Stella Mongela ◽  
Basinda Namanya

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