| attitudes of healthcare providers towards patients with hiv/aids in bandar abbas. | we aimed to investigate the attitudes of healthcare providers towards patients with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (hiv/aids) in bandar abbas, south of iran. in this cross-sectional study, a random sample of 250 healthcare providers completed a 20-item questionnaire from january first through february 30th, 2007. there were five domains of attitudes towards patients with hiv. the items measured as a five-point likert scale ranging from strongly disagree to stron ... | 2009 | 19400609 |
| prevalence of selected sexually and blood-borne infections in injecting drug abuser inmates of bandar abbas and roodan correction facilities, iran, 2002. | human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) and other blood borne viral infections like hepatitis b virus (hbv) and hepatitis c virus (hcv) are major health issues especially in young and growing population of developing countries. all around the globe correctional facilities are known as potential source of spreading such disease. during summer 2002, hiv, hcv antibodies, hepatitis b surface (hbs) antigen and rapid plasma reagin (rpr) test were checked in venous blood samples of 252 injecting drug abuser ... | 2009 | 20428635 |