DISCUSSION This study suggests that a large percentage of HIV-positive individuals within the reproductive age in southwest Nigeria desires and intends to have children in the future in spite of their unfavorable sociodemographic and health-related characteristics. Those who desire children are generally younger, have shorter time lapse since diagnosis of HIV (Generic Zerit treating HIV infection) [...]

Out of the 156 eligible patients seen at the clinic during the study period, 147 agreed to participate in the study, giving a response rate of 94.2%. The sociodemographic characteristics of the respondents are shown in Table 1. The percent of participants who were in their fourth decade of life was 43.5%. One-fifth of the [...]

The tools used to cause intentional injury to children age 0-18 are commonly found. According to numerous surveys, over a third of American households own a firearm, making guns one of America’s most common consumer products. This is in spite of the fact that there are 43 fatal shootings of family members or acquaintances—in suicides, [...]

Setting The survey was conducted among HIV-positive patients attending the HIV (Generic Viramune treating HIV infection) specialist clinic of the Center for Special Studies (CSS) situated at Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Ogun State in southwest Nigeria. This teaching hospital is a publicly funded tertiary institution, which serves as the major referral center for other [...]

During the study period, the ED had 519,218 patient visits, including over 110,000 trauma victims (including major and minor trauma). During the study period, a total of 16,597 ED patients met major trauma criteria upon arrival, 2,191 (13%) of which were of age 0-18.

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK The theoretical structure of this study was based on the Traits-Desires-Intentions-Behavior (TDIB) framework developed by Miller to describe the psychological sequence that culminates in reproductive behaviors. Miller used this framework to trace the sequence of how childbearing motivations lead to fertility desires, fertility intentions and subsequent childbearing. The relevance of this framework to [...]

Study Design This was a retrospective review of eight years of previously compiled data from the trauma registry of a large, urban level-1 trauma center. The study period was January 1, 1992 through December 31, 1999. The study was approved by the hospital’s Institutional Review Board (IRB).