| asia pacific consultancy meeting on hiv / aids, november 5-6, 1996, kathmandu, nepal. forward looking strategies of hiv / aids prevention in asia pacific. | 15% of hiv infections worldwide are in asia. however, by the year 2000, hiv infection in asia could account for 90% of the world's total cases. over the course of a few years, more than 5 million people have become infected with hiv in thailand, india, myanmar, and nepal, and there is some indication that the pandemic is spreading to and within other asian countries. much, however, can be done through nongovernmental organization (ngo)-ngo and ngo-government coordination and cooperation to pr ... | 1996 | 12290313 |
| seroprevalence of hiv and hepatitis c co-infection among blood donors in kathmandu valley, nepal. | we assessed the seroprevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) in different categories of blood donors and the hepatitis c virus (hcv) co-infection rate. a total of 33,255 blood samples were screened for hiv using a third generation elisa test at the central blood transfusion service, nepal red cross society, kathmandu from december 2006 to september 2007. the seroprevalence of hiv was 0.19% (95% ci= 0.15-0.25) and co-infection with hcv was found in 10.8% (95% ci= 4.4-20.9). there were no ... | 2009 | 19323036 |