Feasibility of a yoga intervention to decrease pain in older women: a randomized controlled pilot study.

Background: A significant proportion of older women suffer from chronic pain, which can decrease quality of life. The objective of this pilot randomized study was to evaluate the feasibility of a flow-restorative yoga intervention designed to decrease pain and related outcomes among women aged 60 or older.

Methods: Flow-restorative yoga classes were held twice weekly for 1 hour and led by a certified yoga instructor.

An assessment of counselling and support services for people living withHIV in Gauteng, South Africa: findings of a baseline study.

An increasing body of literature shows that HIV/AIDS and mental health issues are closely related. In spite of this, the mental health correlates of HIV and AIDS remain largely unacknowledged and under-researched in sub-Saharan Africa. Furthermore, despite guidelines by the World Health Organization insisting that counselling with integrated psychological or mental healthcare helps people living with HIV or AIDS (PLHIV) to deal with their disease status and thus increases their quality of life, the services and interventions to address this significant health burden are still lacking, making the HIV/AIDS and mental-health nexus a sizeable social services and health problem.