| hiv-related characteristics of migrant workers in rural south carolina. | after finding human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection in a migrant worker named as a syphilis contact, the south carolina department of health and environmental control offered hiv counseling and testing and syphilis screening to migrant workers in the surrounding two-county area. in addition, a brief questionnaire was administered to document demographics and risk behavior. of the 265 workers aged 16 and older in 15 migrant camps, 198 (75%) consented to the survey and testing. of the 198 t ... | 1991 | 1891727 |
| delayed hypersensitivity skin testing and anergy in a population of gay men. | anergy is almost universal among patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids). to determine the prevalence and correlates of anergy in a population at risk for aids, we performed skin tests in 1120 gay men who were enrolled in a prospective study of the natural history of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection. anergy, defined as no induration to any of four intradermal antigens, was present in 12%. individually, no induration was detected in response to tetanus toxoid (41%) ... | 1987 | 2822314 |
| aids-related knowledge and attitudes of social workers in south carolina. | this study examines the association between knowledge of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids) and skill among social workers in south carolina and attitudes toward people with human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) and aids. a stratified random sampling method was used to obtain a representative sample of social workers in south carolina. findings show that aids-related knowledge and skill were significantly associated with improving the general attitudes of social workers toward hiv/aids clie ... | 1993 | 8288150 |
| social workers' comfort in providing services to aids patients. | with the steadily increasing number of people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus, social workers are being called on to play a key role in meeting the complex psychosocial needs of infected individuals and their significant others. to understand more about social workers' levels of comfort in providing services to individuals with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids) and their family and friends, a survey of social workers in 12 hospital centers was carried out. the majority of ... | 1990 | 2315759 |
| human immunodeficiency virus and the surgeon. | to assess the exposure risks for surgeons and nurses treating hiv infected patients at the medical university hospital and the charleston memorial hospital, a retrospective review of hiv positive patients who underwent surgical procedures from 1985-1988 was undertaken. during that period, 150 patients tested positive for hiv of which 30 (20%) underwent 19 surgical procedures. the prevalence of hiv infected patients at our institution has been increasing over the last two years. 5.3% of the patie ... | 1990 | 2214685 |
| psychiatric diagnoses in adolescents seropositive for the human immunodeficiency virus. | to provide a descriptive analysis of the prevalence of past and current psychiatric disorders in adolescents positive for the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv). | 2000 | 10710020 |
| prevalence of hiv infection in childbearing women in the united states. surveillance using newborn blood samples. | a national, population-based survey was initiated in 1988 to measure the prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection in women giving birth to infants in the united states. following standardized procedures, residual dried-blood specimens collected on filter paper for newborn metabolic screening were tested anonymously in state public health laboratories for maternal antibody to hiv. as of september 1990, annual survey data were available from 38 states and the district of columbia ... | 1991 | 2002571 |
| clinical implications of positive tests for antibodies to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in asymptomatic blood donors. | | 1990 | 1974833 |
| human immunodeficiency virus infection in urban adolescents: can we predict who is at risk? | few studies have evaluated the extent of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) in the adolescent population. however, there has been growing concern that sexual and drug experimentation common in this age group may increase their risks of transmitting the virus. between october 1, 1987, and january 31, 1989, a blinded, unlinked hiv seroprevalence study was conducted among all adolescents aged 13 through 19 receiving ambulatory care at children's national medical center and having blood drawn for ot ... | 1991 | 1945639 |
| the relationship between outpatient drug costs and disease progression in the human immunodeficiency virus-infected population. the military medical consortium for applied retroviral research. | as the focus of the management of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection turns from the treatment of aids to the entire continuum of the disease, projection of long-term healthcare costs becomes increasingly important. rather than a fulminant disease treated primarily inside the hospital, hiv infection will become a chronic condition requiring years of outpatient monitoring and pharmacologic intervention with attending increases in pharmacy costs. the objective of this study was to charact ... | 1991 | 1926913 |
| human immunodeficiency virus social work program at the walter reed army medical center: a historical perspective. | human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection has become a pandemic concern for many nations. when this disease first presented itself in a global manner in the early 1980s, it was accompanied by fear, denial, misunderstanding, social stigma, and a paucity of available support services. the u.s. army was becoming increasingly aware of the potential impact hiv could have on the active forces. a tragic event involving the suicide of a young hiv-infected soldier resulted in the development of a comp ... | 2003 | 14529241 |
| tuberculosis and homelessness in the united states, 1994-2003. | tuberculosis (tb) rates among us homeless persons cannot be calculated because they are not included in the us census. however, homelessness is often associated with tb. | 2005 | 15941806 |
| notification of the sex and needle-sharing partners of individuals with human immunodeficiency virus in rural south carolina: 30-month experience. | the authors conducted a confidential and voluntary partner notification program to identify and educate the sex and needle-sharing partners of individuals with the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) in a rural health district in south carolina. during the first 30 months, of 485 named contacts, 290 (60%) were residents of the health district and were contacted and offered testing. of the 290 contacted, 280 (97%)--53 women and 227 men; age range 14-74 years--accepted counseling and testing and 49 ... | 1991 | 1771474 |
| publicly funded hiv counseling and testing--united states, 1990. | a critical component of cdc's national human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)-prevention program is support for hiv counseling and testing (ct) services. sixty-five hiv-prevention programs are in health departments in 50 states, the district of columbia, six cities, and eight territories. each calendar quarter, the programs report to cdc aggregate or client record data about the number of 1) pretest counseling sessions, hiv-antibody tests, positive tests, and posttest counseling sessions, by ct site ... | 1991 | 1654500 |
| physician and infection control practitioner hiv/aids reporting characteristics. | we surveyed a random sample of south carolina physicians and infection control practitioners about the reporting of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) cases. of physicians surveyed, 79% indicated that hiv infection as well as aids should be reported by name. the following characteristics were associated with those physicians who do not report aids cases: not feeling responsible for reporting, not reporting a case perceived to have been reported in an ... | 1992 | 1585971 |
| syringe exchange programs --- united states, 2008. | persons who inject drugs should use a new, sterile needle and syringe for each injection. syringe exchange programs (seps) provide free sterile syringes and collect used syringes from injection-drug users (idus) to reduce transmission of bloodborne pathogens, including human immunodeficiency virus (hiv), hepatitis b virus, and hepatitis c virus (hcv). as of march 2009, a total of 184 seps were known to be operating in 36 states, the district of columbia (dc), and puerto rico (north american syri ... | 2010 | 21085091 |
| publicly funded hiv counseling and testing--united states, 1991. | human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) counseling and testing (ct) services provided by health departments are a major component of the national hiv-prevention program. the purpose of hiv ct is to 1) reinforce perception of risk by those who are unaware or uninformed, 2) help uninfected persons initiate and sustain behavior changes that reduce their risk for becoming infected, and 3) identify hiv-infected persons who can be referred for early medical care and counseled to practice safer behaviors. t ... | 1992 | 1501603 |
| immunologic markers of progression to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome are time-dependent and illness-specific. | since prevalent cohorts may be biased by the duration of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection (onset bias), it is useful to assess the potential predictive value of markers in incident cohorts of hiv-positive subjects for whom the date of seroconversion is known or can reliably be estimated. of 131 homosexual men with hiv-1 seroconversion from new york city and washington, dc, who were evaluated annually beginning in 1982, 60 developed acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) by the end ... | 1992 | 1384311 |
| hiv-risk behaviors associated with homelessness characteristics in youth. | to examine characteristics of youth homelessness associated with engaging in risk behaviors for human immunodeficiency virus (hiv). | 1999 | 10551665 |
| success in implementing public health service guidelines to reduce perinatal transmission of hiv--louisiana, michigan, new jersey, and south carolina, 1993, 1995, and 1996. | in 1994, the public health service (phs) published guidelines for zidovudine (zdv) use to reduce perinatal transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) (1), and in 1995 published guidelines for hiv counseling and voluntary testing of pregnant women (2). to directly assess the implementation of these guidelines and to identify barriers to the continued reduction of perinatal transmission, four states that conduct surveillance for hiv/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) (louisiana, mic ... | 1998 | 9733415 |
| human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)-associated nephropathy in children from the washington, d.c. area: 12 years' experience. | human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)-associated nephropathy (hivan) is a clinicopathologic entity that includes proteinuria, azotemia, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis or mesangial hyperplasia, and tubulointerstitial disease. the incidence of hivan is increased in black patients and variable depending on the age and geographic area. the objective of this study was to describe relevant clinical and pathological findings in 30 children with hivan followed at the children's national medical center ... | 1998 | 9692352 |
| adapting an effective primary care provider std/hiv prevention training programme. | sexually acquired human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection continues to be the major source of hiv infection in the usa. preventing sexual transmission of hiv can be accomplished through patient behaviour change. such behaviour change can also decrease risk of other sexually transmitted diseases (stds) and unwanted pregnancies, both far more common problems than hiv infection. primary care physicians and other providers can increase patients' safe sex practices by conducting effective sexual ... | 1998 | 9625896 |
| progression to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is influenced by cd4 t-lymphocyte count and time since seroconversion. | progression to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) among persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) varies considerably and may be influenced by factors such as age, smoking, number of male partners per year, and cd4 t-lymphocyte count. the loss of cd4 lymphocytes is known to be the dominant factor in the progression to aids. however, it is unclear whether the effect of the cd4 lymphocyte count is of such importance that persons with similar cd4 cell counts who have been infe ... | 1997 | 9098180 |
| foster care of hiv-positive children in the united states. | a national study regarding the foster care of children identified as human immunodeficiency virus-positive (hiv-positive) was conducted in 1991. a survey form was sent to the administrators of the state agency responsible for foster care in each state, the district of columbia, and u.s. territories for a total sample size of 55. after followup, all 55 responded for a response rate of 100 percent. the number of children in foster care was ascertained for the current year and cumulatively. in 1991 ... | 1994 | 8303016 |
| the types of drugs used by hiv-infected injection drug users in a multistate surveillance project: implications for intervention. | this study sought to describe the drugs used by drug injectors infected with human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) and to determine factors associated with the primary injection drug used. | 1994 | 7998639 |
| temporal trends in the incidence of hiv-1-related neurologic diseases: multicenter aids cohort study, 1985-1992. | to describe temporal trends in the incidence of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)-related neurologic diseases in the multicenter aids cohort study from 1985 to 1992. | 1994 | 7936243 |
| recent infection with human immunodeficiency virus and possible rapid loss of cd4 t lymphocytes. | to assess a hypothesized trend that persons recently infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) may have more rapid declines in absolute cd4 t-lymphocyte (cd4+ cell) counts than those who were hiv-infected in earlier years, sequential cd4+ cell counts in three groups who had definable dates of hiv seroconversion between 1978 and 1992 were reviewed. the cd4+ cell counts examined were from some of the longest extant studies in the united states: 100 homosexual and bisexual men engaged in ... | 1995 | 7788428 |
| effect of t4 count and cofactors on the incidence of aids in homosexual men infected with human immunodeficiency virus. | we prospectively evaluated potential markers and cofactors for the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) in 86 homosexual men who were seropositive for human immunodeficiency virus antibodies. during three years of follow-up, 19 men developed aids. risk of aids was clearly predicted by the total number of circulating okt4-positive lymphocytes (t4 count) at enrollment, while the corresponding t8 count was unrelated to subsequent aids development. subjects in manhattan had a higher risk of kap ... | 1987 | 3491911 |
| coping with aids and human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection in south carolina. | | 1987 | 3475500 |
| contact tracing and the control of human immunodeficiency virus infection. | | 1988 | 3131557 |
| contact tracing to identify human immunodeficiency virus infection in a rural community. | this report describes a contact investigation conducted in rural south carolina to identify, counsel, and educate persons infected with or exposed to the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv). starting with one hiv antibody-positive man and his 19 sex contacts, we identified 83 sex contacts of hiv antibody-positive men. of these, 64 were residents of the county and 63 (98%) agreed to be tested for evidence of hiv infection. eight (13%) were hiv antibody positive. thirty-six initially hiv antibody-n ... | 1988 | 3131555 |
| concomitant infection of htlv-i and hiv-1: prevalence of igg and igm antibodies in washington, d.c. area. | serum samples collected from four groups of individuals in the washington, d.c. area were examined for the presence of igg and igm classes of antibody reacting against htlv-i and hiv-1. these four groups were: (1) healthy adults with negative premarital vdrl test for syphilis (n = 113), (2) miscellaneous common disease patients (n = 155), (3) drug abusers (n = 130), and (4) homosexual men (n = 187). the former two groups are considered to be low-risk groups, and the latter two, high-risk groups. ... | 1988 | 2904886 |
| inaccurate documentation of hiv-positive status in adolescents visiting an urban emergency department. | to identify the frequency of documentation of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)-positive adolescents' serostatus during urban pediatric emergency room visits, and to examine possible differences between those whose hiv positive serostatus was and was not documented. | 1999 | 10551666 |
| hiv-infected women's experiences and beliefs related to azt therapy during pregnancy. | to explore women's experiences and beliefs concerning zidovudine (azt) therapy during pregnancy, short-answer and open-ended questions were asked of 322 human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)-infected women at increased risk for pregnancy. specifically, we examined what women believed they had been told concerning azt therapy during pregnancy by health care professionals and peers, experiences with taking azt, how effective they believed azt therapy to be, and if they would take azt if they became p ... | 2001 | 11359662 |
| factors affecting health status in african americans living with hiv/aids. | this study surveyed face-to-face 111 african american newly diagnosed and living with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (hiv/aids) from the washington d.c. area, to ascertain the use of, and need for, early intervention services. the survey instrument included sections on demographics, level of health functioning and health indicators, social and financial support, and needed services. this article constructs a health status proxy variable from survey items and exa ... | 2001 | 11445015 |
| local aids task forces / coordinating bodies. | this directory of local acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) task forces and coordinating bodies was prepared by the us conference of mayors to facilitate the exchange of ideas among localities. cited in the directory are 142 bodies--including minority liaisons--from 37 states and the district of columbia. local aids task forces have been established as a means of organizing and coordinating community responses to aids in terms of health services, funding, and risk reduction health educat ... | 1988 | 12315469 |
| the legality of selling or giving syringes to injection drug users. | laws limiting access to sterile syringes impede the public health goal that injection drug users (idus) use a new, sterile syringe for every injection to reduce blood-borne disease transmission. we sought to determine the legality of selling or giving syringes to idus to prevent disease. | 2002 | 12489604 |
| epidemiology of hiv and aids among adolescents and young adults in the united states. | to describe the current status of the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (hiv/aids) epidemic among adolescents and young adults in the united states. despite reported declines in sexual risk behaviors among adolescents in the past decade, little has been published about the epidemiology of hiv and aids among adolescents and young adults in the united states. | 2006 | 16857526 |
| treatment perceptions and attitudes of older human immunodeficiency virus-infected adults. | to apply the health belief model (hbm) in assessing the association of health beliefs, perceived benefits, perceived barriers, alternative therapy use, and sexual risk behaviors in relation to the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) in a group of older hiv-infected patients. | 2005 | 17138466 |
| informing faith-based hiv/aids interventions: hiv-related knowledge and stigmatizing attitudes at project f.a.i.t.h. churches in south carolina. | project f.a.i.t.h. (fostering aids initiatives that heal) was established in january 2006 to reduce the stigma of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) among african american faith-based organizations in south carolina. during its first year, project f.a.i.t.h. funded 22 churches to provide hiv-related programs and services to their congregations and surrounding communities. to determine the baseline level of hiv-related knowledge and stigmatizing attitudes, we conducted a survey with parishioners, ... | 2010 | 20408383 |
| tuberculosis in older adults in the united states, 1993-2008. | to describe older adults with tuberculosis (tb) and compare demographic, diagnostic, and disease characteristics and treatment outcomes between older and younger adults with tb. | 2011 | 21517786 |