Unlabelled: GOAL AND STUDY TYPE: to favour access and job conservation for the epileptic's patients, a descriptive and transversal study of word conditions of epileptic's workers have been driven for June to December 2005 at Abidjan.
Material And Method: study population was constituted of 55 epileptics who are regularly followed and diagnose patients during study period. They did a fixed professional activity employee and old than 15 years.
Objective: To measure the frequency and associated factors of cervicovaginal HIV shedding and to determine the impact of sexually transmitted disease (STD) treatment on HIV shedding.
Design: Cross-sectional study with 1-week follow-up.
Setting: Confidential clinic for female sex workers in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
A cross-sectional study among female sex workers in Abidjan was conducted to study the association between sexually transmitted diseases and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and HIV-related immunosuppression. Among 1209 women tested for HIV, 962 (80%) were seropositive. HIV infection was independently associated with a longer duration of sex work, a lower price for intercourse, being an immigrant, and having a positive Treponema pallidum hemagglutination test (P < .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To determine the absolute and proportional prevalence of dual seroreactivity to HIV-1 and HIV-2 in female sex workers in Abidjan, to determine risk determinants for this serologic profile, and to describe the associated clinical and immunological characteristics.
Design: Cross-sectional study.
Setting: Confidential clinic for female sex workers in Abidjan.