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@#BACKGROUND. To identify the prevalence of oral lesions in HIV positive group of patients, and to compare their CD4 cell count and viral load to stages of disease progress. MATERIAL AND METHODS. In the present study, we evaluated 30 HIV+ adult patients, attended to the AIDS/STI Department of National Center for Communicable Diseases, Ministry of Health Mongolia. Each patient was clinically examined for detection of oral mucosal lesions. In addition, CD4 cell count was determined by Flow Cytometry, as well as viral load by RT-PCR (Amplicor HIV- RNA, TM test 1.5, Roche) RESULTS. 46% of all examined HIV/AIDS patients had oral lesions. Oral Candidiasis constituted the most common lesion, representing 35%, Herpes 22%, followed by Oral Leukoplakia 17%, Necrotizing ulcerative periodontitis 9%, Aphthous Recurrent Stomatitis 13%, Kaposi’s sarcoma 4%. The patients, who have a viral load high exhibited oral lesions related to HIV, independent of CD4 cell count, although patients with CD4+ levels of 233 cel/mm3 were more susceptible to develop these lesions. СONCLUSION. The most common oral lesion was Oral Candidiasis, followed by Oral Leukoplakia and Necrotizing ulcerative periodontitis. A high viral load was strongly associated to the oral lesions occurrence independently of CD4+cell count..
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There were currently diagnosed by totally 177 cases with HIV in our country. The 82.3% of those were male and 72.9% of them were men sex with man. Sexual minority group especially men who intercourse with male are highly risk to HIV infection. By the study of 2011, which aimedto assess risk to exposure HIV infection among sexual minority group, 56.2% of all participants answered as had depression symptoms and 12.8% of them seen to psychologist and health workers. In addition, 2% of them used by injection of drug for last year, and 60.6% harmfully drank.The study was done by quantitative and qualitative methods and used specific designed questionnaire for sexual minority with HIV infection. Totally 26 consumers participated in our survey. Before the starting of the study, we introduced inform consent to all participants and if they agreed to participate, we coded research cards and collected the information.All participants were answered alcohol drink, and 46.1% of them determined with heavy drinking or harmful consumption by the AUDIT versus 7.8% were alcohol dependence. 65.3% oftotal participants used as smoke, 5 cases used cannabis; one of them has been used within last twelve months. In addition, 23.1% of all participants had anxiety and 15.3% had mild depression symptoms. Of the total 26 cases, 7 cases had suicide thinking related with sexual orientationand 2 cases had suicide thinking related with HIV infection. Those cases answered often feeling hopeless and helpless.In sexual minority group with HIV, alcohol and tobacco consumption was high, drug abuse was low. 15.3-23.1% of all participants had depression and anxiety symptoms. Suicide thinking has been occurred for those cases it means risk to suicide commitment.
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GoalTo determine current and the most widely used methods of delivering health information to urban population aged 15-64.Materials and MethodsA two-stage proportional sampling method was used and 809 respondents aged 15-64 were involved. The data was collected using quantitative and qualitative methods. Quantitative data was processed using the SPSS 13 software. Error limit (e) of 0.05 was chosen as having a statistical probability.ResultsSurvey involved 809 respondents aged 15-64 from Ulaanbaatar, Bayan-ulgii aimag (western region), Huvshul aimag (forest region), Dornod aimag (eastern region) and Dundgovi aimag (central region) centers of which 357 are male and 452 female. TV is the most popular information source although there are no regular hours for health information; in particular NCDs. Respondents prefer to watch related programs at specific TV hours every week. In regards to ways of receiving information, respondents would like to see live TV programs (60.9%), short commercials or ads (29.7%), documentaries (24.1%) and entertainment shows (17.1%).Conclusions:1. The most popular sources for getting health information, specifically on NCDs, to the population are television, newspapers, magazines, the Internet and friends. There is no difference noticed in information sources between Ulaanbaatar and aimag centers.2. There is a need to deliver information to population aged 15-64 on general understanding of NCDs, their prevention, on healthy diet, avoidance of harmful habits such as use of alcohol and tobacco. The most effective ways to deliver the information to the target population are communication channels such as television, health professionals and facilities, health volunteers, newspapers, magazines, Internet and friends.