Survival of HIV/AIDS patients treated under ART follow-up at the University hospital, northwest Ethiopia

INTRODUCTION@#The survival of HIV/AIDS patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) is determined by a number of factors, including economic, demographic, behavioral, and institutional factors. Understanding the survival time and its trend is crucial to developing policies that will result in changes. The aim of this study was to compare the survival estimates of different subgroups and look into the predictors of HIV/AIDS patient survival.@*METHODS@#A retrospective cohort study of HIV/AIDS patients receiving ART at the University of Gondar teaching hospital was carried out. To compare the survival of various groups, a Kaplan-Meier survival analysis was performed. The Cox proportional hazards model was used to identify factors influencing HIV/AIDS patient survival rates.@*RESULTS@#In the current study, 5.91% of the 354 HIV/AIDS patients under ART follow-up were uncensored or died. Age (HR = 1.051) and lack of formal education (HR = 5.032) were associated with lower survival rate, whereas family size of one to two (HR = 0.167), three to four (HR = 0.120), no alcoholic consumption (HR = 0.294), no smoking and chat use (HR = 0.101), baseline weight (HR = 0.920), current weight (HR = 0.928), baseline CD4 cell count (HR = 0.990), baseline hemoglobin (HR = 0.800), and no TB diseases were associated with longer survival rate.@*CONCLUSIONS@#Fewer deaths were reported in a study area due to high patient adherence, compared to previous similar studies. Age, educational status, family size, alcohol consumption, tobacco and chat usage, baseline and current weight, baseline CD4 cell count, baseline hemoglobin, and tuberculosis (TB) diseases were all significant predictors of survival of HIV/AIDS patients.

Iraqi medicine and its impact on the western medicine

In this research, we tried to shed light on the books of Iraqi doctors which were translated into Latin, the history of their translation and printing and the people who were responsible of their translation. We also assure that these books, in addition to the books of other Arab doctors, were a very important factor in the modern European medical progress. AI-Kindi 3 books, Bin Masawayh 5 books, Hunain Bin Ishaq 6 books, Hubaish Bin Al-A'sam 2 books, Ishaq Bin Hunain one book, Qasta Bin Loqa one book, Ishaq Bin Omran one book, AI-Razi 14 books, Ammar Bin AN AI-Mosuli one book, Masawayh AI-Mardini 3 books, Bin AI-Haytham one book, Bin Jazla AI-Baghdadi 2 books, AN Bin Essa AI-Kahal one book, Bin Batlan AI-Baghdadi one book, Bin Sarafyoon one book and Abdul Latif AI-Baghdadi one book