Sökning: "Urban resource poor settings"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden Urban resource poor settings.
1. Tourism Development in Resource Peripheries : conflicting and Unifying Spaces in Northern Sweden
Sammanfattning : The northern Swedish inland is a sparsely populated area with a historical dependence upon natural-resource extraction. Therefore, this region has traditionally been defined as a resource periphery for extractive purposes. However, the rise of tourism challenges this narrative by producing a pleasure periphery for touristic purposes. LÄS MER
2. Men and sex : construction of male sexuality and the implications for HIV prevention in urban settings in Kenya and South Africa
Sammanfattning : Background: The perspectives of heterosexual males who engage in high risk sexual behaviours with large sexual networks and concurrent partners are scarcely documented, but these are crucial in the understanding of the high HIV prevalence. Little is known about the sexual life and sexual risk reduction strategies in poor-resource, high risk settings in relation to increased access to antiretroviral treatment (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa Aims: The overall aim was to explore male sexual risk behaviours and sexual risk reduction strategies in urban resource-poor settings in sub-Saharan Africa with implications for sexually transmitted HIV and prevention strategies. LÄS MER
3. Virologic failure and HIV-1 drug resistance among antiretroviral therapy recipients in an urban resource-limited setting : the South African virologic evaluation (SAVE) study
Sammanfattning : In sub-Saharan Africa, more than four million HIV-infected people have been initiated on antiretroviral therapy (ART); most only have access to first line-treatment, and few ART clinics can provide second- line regimens to everyone in need due to the cost of equipment to detect virologic failure and the cost of alternative drugs. Hence, sustaining the usage of first-line regimens is crucial. LÄS MER
4. Neuroepidemiology of Parkinson’s disease in an urban area of Iran : from screening and prevalence to nutritional, clinical and psychiatric features and quality of life
Sammanfattning : Background. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder with complex presentations consisting of different motor and non-motor symptoms. The multisystem and progressive nature of PD has made it a complicated entity with broad variation in manifestations and reciprocal effects on several aspects of daily life. LÄS MER
5. Control or elimination : terms for public health interventions against tungiasis and schistosomiasis haematobium
Sammanfattning : The thesis revolves around diagnosis and treatment of tungiasis (sand flea disease) and schistosomiasis haematobium. The causing parasites, Tunga penetrans and Schistosoma haematobium, both have the ability to penetrate intact skin. LÄS MER
