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From:American Scientist (Vol. 97, Issue 3)In 1989, Nicolai Ceausescu, the Communist dictator who ruled Romania for 24 years, was executed by firing squad. A revolution followed, which led to a new government and then exploration by an inquisitive West of a...
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From:Merrill-Palmer Quarterly (Vol. 46, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedCognitive development was evaluated in children who had spent at least 8 months in a Romanian orphanage (RO) and two comparison groups of children: a Canadian-Born, nonadopted, never institutionalized comparison group...
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From:Continuity in EducationPeer-ReviewedDimerix seeks to replicate compelling data seen in initial phase 2 clinical trial of potential kidney disease therapy DMX-200. For the complete story see:...
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From:Africa Today (Vol. 56, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn Kampala, Pentecostal churches have been filling the public space since 1986. The paper focuses on the transformation that Pentecostal churches have been experiencing in Uganda, with an increasing involvement in...
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From:SAMJ South African Medical Journal (Vol. 109, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground. Limited research investigating treatment outcomes for HIV-positive orphans compared with non-orphans has shown mixed results, with several studies indicating that HIV-positive orphans are at greater risk of...
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From:South African Journal of Childhood Education (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Death and loss are inevitable, and life changes profoundly for those left behind. A General Household Survey by Statistics South Africa indicated that 94.2% of orphans aged 7-18 years were still attending...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedBackground The Thai HIV programme is a leader in the public health approach to HIV treatment. Starting at transmission of HIV and ending with transition to adult services this paper assesses the paediatric HIV...
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From:Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health (Vol. 5) Peer-ReviewedBackground The number of orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa is constantly rising. While it is known that family or community care is preferable over institutional care of African orphans, little is known about the quality...
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From:Nature (Vol. 596, Issue 7871) Peer-ReviewedYoung people who have lost parents to the pandemic need urgent support and long-term study to avert the cascade of adversity that can follow. Decades of research into the HIV epidemic provide a solid foundation. Young...
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From:BMC Psychiatry (Vol. 22, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Few studies have explored the health and development of AIDS orphans using the positive youth development (PYD) framework. Grounded in this framework, the main objective of this study is to examine how...
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From:Pediatrics (Vol. 109, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed"AIDS reduces the ratio of healthy workers to dependents (children and the elderly), increasing the care-taking burden of the survivors. The number of orphans and children who have lost their mother, for example, is...
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From:Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week2018 FEB 24 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- US Bioservices, an independent specialty pharmacy and a part of AmerisourceBergen, announced that 2017 was a record...
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From:Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Little/no research has been conducted in Uganda in particular and sub-Saharan Africa in general on the health professional's perspectives on barriers to treatment seeking for formal health services among...
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From:BMC Genomics (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Small nucleolar RNAs are a highly conserved group of small RNAs found in eukaryotic cells. Genes encoding these RNAs are diversely located throughout the genome. They are functionally conserved, performing...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 30, Issue 12)During 1994, smoking-related deaths of people ages 15-54 left an estimated 31,000 children and adolescents fatherless and 12,000 motherless in the United States, epidemiologists reported. The number of youths whose...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground Children who have lost a parent to HIV/AIDS, known as AIDS orphans, face multiple stressors affecting their health and development. Family economic empowerment (FEE) interventions have the potential to...
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From:Applied Clinical Trials (Vol. 15, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedThe European Union adopted its orphan drug rules back in 1999. (1) The rationale is well known: to stimulate research and development of treatment for rare diseases. And while the EU has made provision at the central...
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From:Best Practices in Mental Health (Vol. 8, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedChild protection in general and psychosocial support activities in particular for orphans, separated children, and youth (OSCY) in Aceh had started long before the area was hit by the double catastrophes: the earthquake...
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From:Infectious Diseases of Poverty (Vol. 4, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Provider-initiated HIV testing and counseling (PITC) is offered as part of the normal standard of care to increase access to treatment for HIV-infected children. In practice, HIV diagnosis occurs in late...
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From:Medical Product Outsourcing (Vol. 10, Issue 9)The KFDA also introduced a new expedited review process for medical device registration. Devices utilizing novel technology and orphan devices now are eligible to apply for expedited review. The KFDA will conduct...