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Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS and Syphilis among High Risk Groups in Pakistan

Usman Waheed^1,*, Humayoon Shafique Satti², Muhammad Arshad³, Ahmed Farooq³, Abdul Rauf⁴ and Hasan Abbas Zaheer^1,5

...evalence of HIV/AIDS and syphilis is rapidly increasing among high risk groups (HRGs) in Pakistan leading it away from achieving the 6^th millennium development goal of halting and reversing HIV/AIDS epidemic. Syphilis increases the risk of HIV transmission by two to five times, and this co-infection is common among HRGs. The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence of HIV/AIDS and

A Review on Botanical, Phytochemical and Pharmacological Reports of Conocarpus Erectus

Sabi-ur-rehman¹, Farooq Azam¹, Shaheed Ur Rehman², Tasbeeh Ur Rahman³, Ayeza Mehmood⁴, Afshan Gohar⁵ and Abdul Samad^5*

...tment of conjunctivitis, syphilis, gonorrhea, orchitis, diarrhea, anemia, prickly heat and swellings etc. The plant has also reported to have pharmacological active phytochemicals i.e. conocarpan, conocarpol, gallic acid, ellagic acid, ellagitannin, castalagin, quercetin, myricetin and syringetin etc. The review expresses the ethanomedicinal potential of this plant specie as well as its importance in modern medicines.

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High Rate of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) among Asymptomatic Pregnant Women in a Resource-poor Setting in the Middle Belt Zone of Nigeria

Cornelius Arome Omatola*, Samson Daniel Iyeh, Shedrach James Abuh, Charles Kehinde Mofolorunsho, Martin-Luther Oseni Okolo and Phoebe Queen Akoh

...HIV, HBV, HCV, HSV-2 and syphilis) in asymptomatic women in Anyigba. Sera samples from a cross-section of 250 consenting pregnant women on antenatal visits to five health facilities were screened for HIV, HBV, HCV and HSV-2 using commercially available immunochromatographic based kits and for syphilis using non-treponemal and treponemal antibody test. Socio-demographic and obstetric parameters were obtained using structured ...

Effect of False-Positive Syphilis Spirochete-Specific Antigen on Pregnancy

Li Wang, Feifei Feng, Kefei Peng, Yan Zhang and Ling Zhou*

... as a screening test for syphilis. The potential clinical value of the false positive result of obstetric CIA screening has not been elucidated. Our study aims to investigate the possible association between CIA false-positivity for syphilis and pregnancy outcome, which may provide information for obstetric clinical management. We retrospectively investigated the singleton pregnant women who had delivered at our center, and ...