Online Spatial HIV/AIDS Surveillance and Monitoring System for Nigeria

2016 ◽  
pp. 28-58
Author(s):  
Peter Adebayo Idowu
Keyword(s):  
Monitoring System ◽  
Electronic Monitoring ◽  
Economic Effect ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Aids Patients ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Occupation Level ◽  
Hiv Aids

HIV/AIDS has now become a big threat to the world generally, most especially the Sub-Saharan Africa region as it continues to increase drastically in the region. This disease has increased the poverty level of the countries in the region. In Nigeria, millions of people infected with this deadly disease are in their productive years between 15 and 49. This surge is having a negative effect on Nigeria and other Sub-Saharan Africa countries as it lowers life expectancy, slows population growth and social and economic effect on the country. Presently, health officers in Nigeria primarily rely on monitoring HIV/AIDS prevalence only among women attending antenatal clinics as that is the only source of getting data from HIV/AIDS patients. In the country, there is no electronic HIV/AIDS database, no electronic means of capturing HIV/AIDS data and no electronic monitoring of HIV/AIDS patients. This chapter presents a prototypical HIV/AIDS surveillance and monitoring system and the prototype was developed using Dreamweaver, PHP and MySQL. With this system, users could spatially query the pattern and distribution of any HIV/AIDS disease using any known location. Also, queries based on occupation, level of education, and gender among other things are possible with this system. Though the system was developed for Nigeria, it can also be extended to other countries within Sub-Saharan Africa region.

Online Spatial HIV/AIDS Surveillance and Monitoring System for Nigeria

2016 ◽  
pp. 495-526
Author(s):  
Peter Adebayo Idowu
Keyword(s):  
Monitoring System ◽  
Electronic Monitoring ◽  
Economic Effect ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Aids Patients ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Occupation Level ◽  
Hiv Aids

HIV/AIDS has now become a big threat to the world generally, most especially the Sub-Saharan Africa region as it continues to increase drastically in the region. This disease has increased the poverty level of the countries in the region. In Nigeria, millions of people infected with this deadly disease are in their productive years between 15 and 49. This surge is having a negative effect on Nigeria and other Sub-Saharan Africa countries as it lowers life expectancy, slows population growth and social and economic effect on the country. Presently, health officers in Nigeria primarily rely on monitoring HIV/AIDS prevalence only among women attending antenatal clinics as that is the only source of getting data from HIV/AIDS patients. In the country, there is no electronic HIV/AIDS database, no electronic means of capturing HIV/AIDS data and no electronic monitoring of HIV/AIDS patients. This chapter presents a prototypical HIV/AIDS surveillance and monitoring system and the prototype was developed using Dreamweaver, PHP and MySQL. With this system, users could spatially query the pattern and distribution of any HIV/AIDS disease using any known location. Also, queries based on occupation, level of education, and gender among other things are possible with this system. Though the system was developed for Nigeria, it can also be extended to other countries within Sub-Saharan Africa region.

Online Spatial HIV/AIDS Surveillance and Monitoring System for Nigeria

Biometrics ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 448-479
Author(s):  
Peter Adebayo Idowu
Keyword(s):  
Monitoring System ◽  
Electronic Monitoring ◽  
Economic Effect ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Aids Patients ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Occupation Level ◽  
Hiv Aids

HIV/AIDS has now become a big threat to the world generally, most especially the Sub-Saharan Africa region as it continues to increase drastically in the region. This disease has increased the poverty level of the countries in the region. In Nigeria, millions of people infected with this deadly disease are in their productive years between 15 and 49. This surge is having a negative effect on Nigeria and other Sub-Saharan Africa countries as it lowers life expectancy, slows population growth and social and economic effect on the country. Presently, health officers in Nigeria primarily rely on monitoring HIV/AIDS prevalence only among women attending antenatal clinics as that is the only source of getting data from HIV/AIDS patients. In the country, there is no electronic HIV/AIDS database, no electronic means of capturing HIV/AIDS data and no electronic monitoring of HIV/AIDS patients. This chapter presents a prototypical HIV/AIDS surveillance and monitoring system and the prototype was developed using Dreamweaver, PHP and MySQL. With this system, users could spatially query the pattern and distribution of any HIV/AIDS disease using any known location. Also, queries based on occupation, level of education, and gender among other things are possible with this system. Though the system was developed for Nigeria, it can also be extended to other countries within Sub-Saharan Africa region.

scholarly journals Frequency of Pneumocystis jirovecii in sputum from HIV and TB patients in Namibia

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (03) ◽  
pp. 349-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Nowaseb ◽  
Esegiel Gaeb ◽  
Marcin G Fraczek ◽  
Malcolm D Richardson ◽  
David W Denning
Keyword(s):  
Pneumocystis Pneumonia ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Pneumocystis Jirovecii ◽  
Aids Patients ◽  
Limited Region ◽  
Minimum Frequency ◽  
Resource Limited ◽  
Smear Negative ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Hiv Aids

Introduction: The opportunistic fungus Pneumocystis jirovecii causes Pneumocystis pneumonia (PcP), which is a life-threatening infection in HIV/AIDS patients. The seemingly low prevalence of P. jirovecii pneumonia in sub-Saharan Africa has been a matter of great debate because many HIV/AIDS patients reside in this region. The lack of suitable diagnostic practices in this resource limited-region has been added to the uncertainty of PcP prevalence. Only a few studies have evaluated the utility of easily obtainable samples such as expectorated sputum for diagnosis of PcP. Thus, the aim of the current study was to evaluate the effectiveness of expectorated sputum for the routine diagnosis of PcP in a resource-limited sub-Saharan African setting. Methodology: Randomly collected sputum samples were analysed by microscopy after Grocott’s methenamine silver (GMS) stain staining and by qPCR to determine the minimum frequency of detectable P. jirovecii. Results: A total of 475 samples were analysed. Twenty five (5.3%) samples were positive for P. jirovecii, i.e., 17 (3.6%) using both qPCR and GMS staining and eight (1.7%) using qPCR only. P. jirovecii was present in 8/150 (5.3%) HIV-positive and tuberculosis (TB) smear-negative patients, and in 12/227 (5.3%) TB smear-negative patients with an unknown HIV status. The minimum frequency of PcP was 3.6% in Namibian HIV and TB patients, while the actual frequency is likely to be 5.3%. Conclusion: This study demonstrated that expectorated sputum can be used routinely for the diagnosis of PcP by GMS, although qPCR is more sensitive, and it requires less time and skill.

scholarly journals Finnish Official Development Aid for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa

2010 ◽  
pp. 143-170
Author(s):  
Riikka Shemeikka
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Health ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Hiv Aids

Finland is one of the donor countries that is most supportive in family planning (FP), Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and gender issues. This study examines Finnish ODA for FP and SRHR: its decision-making structure, other stakeholders and funding levels. Data consists of documents from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) and interviews conducted at the MFA and with other experts. While Parliament decides on the overall level of ODA funding, the Minister for Foreign Trade and Development has considerable autonomy. Other stakeholders such as the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Population and Development and the Family Federation of Finland (Vestliitto) engage in advocacy work and have influenced development policy. Although the Development Policy 2007 mentions the importance of health and SRHR issues and HIV/AIDS is a cross-cutting issue, interviewees stated that the importance of health and SRHR in ODA has declined and that the implementation of cross-cutting issues is challenging. Multilateral funding for UNFPA, UNAIDS and GFATM, and thus the proportion of SRHR funding within the health sector, is however currently rising. Funding for population-related activities has increased and represented 4.8% of Finlands total ODA in 2009. Almost all of this funding is directed towards basic reproductive health and HIV/AIDS issues and the majority is directed through multilateral channels (78% in 2009), mainly UNFPA and UNAIDS. IPPF, Ipas and Marie Stopes International also receive support.

Cognitive impairment and its associated factors among HIV/AIDS patients on anti retro -viral therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Systematic review and meta-analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 83-91
Author(s):  
Getachew Yideg Yitbarek ◽  
Gashaw Walle Ayehu ◽  
Belete Achamyelew Ayele ◽  
Wubet Alebachew Bayih ◽  
Alemayehu Digssie Gebremariam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Associated Factors ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Aids Patients ◽  
Viral Therapy ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Hiv Aids

scholarly journals Die erediensgebed en MIV/vigs

2003 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
B.J. De Klerk
Keyword(s):  
Communicative Action ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Hiv Positive ◽  
Aids Patients ◽  
Worship Service ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Active Care ◽  
Hiv Aids

Prayers in the worship service and HIV/Aids It seems as if most churches are still – to a great extent – not seriously involved in the problems of the HIV/Aids pandemic, and that prayers in the worship service for people suffering from HIV/Aids are few or even totally absent. The extent of the pandemic is overwhelming, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. The needs and the suffering of Aids patients in terms of the physical, psychological and social aspects of their lives are likewise radical. The stigmatisation of Aids is far-reaching among all the population groups and forms the source of degradation and loneliness experienced by HIV-positive people. Churches should thus bring this suffering before God in prayer. Prayer is a communicative action in the worship service, but it is much more than communication; it is communion with the almighty God. In his communion with people praying to Him, God gives them strength to bring about a change of heart and attitude towards those for whom they are praying. Guidelines are suggested for focusing on HIV/Aids too in the elements of doxology, thanksgiving, humbling and prayers during the worship service. The conclusion arrived at implies that occasional worship-service prayers focusing on HIV/Aids can have a definite influence on the congregation’s attitude towards, their involvement with, and their active care for people suffering from HIV/Aids.

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