Publications

the trend of hiv infection in kano, nigeria--a seven-year study of adult attendees of aminu kano teaching hospital.	human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection is a huge concern with increasing epidemic proportions the consequences are devastating in developing countries particularly in large areas of southeast asia and sub saharan africa including decrease in life-expectancy, huge loss of manpower and a heavy economic and social burden. sub-saharan africa has been hit harder by hiv/aids pandemic than any other region of the world at the end of 2006, the joint united nations programme on hiv/aids (unaids) es ...	2007	18080593
human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis b virus co-infection among patients in kano nigeria.	human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis b virus are widespread in the developing countries and patients with dual infection of hiv and hbv are increasingly being diagnosed among hospital patients. reports have indicated that hepatitis will contribute significantly to morbidity and mortality in hiv infected patients because of increased use and accessibility of highly active antiretroviral therapy (haart). the objective of this study is to determine the prevalence of hiv and hbv co-infection i ...	2006	17111748
seroprevalence of hiv-1, hiv-2, and hiv-1 group o in nigeria: evidence for a growing increase of hiv infection.	to determine current data on hiv infection and to further confirm the presence of hiv-1 group o infection in nigeria, 2300 samples from five states were tested for the presence of hiv antibody. a convenience sampling was obtained from pregnant women, tuberculosis (tb) patients, commercial sex workers (csws), blood donors, patients with sexually transmitted diseases (stds), patients with skin diseases, male clients of csws, outpatients suspected to have aids, truck drivers, and community dwellers ...	1997	9390573