<p>The HIV/AIDS pandemic poses the greatest threat to Africa's efforts to achieve its full potential in the social, economical and political spheres. Cognizant of its devastating consequences, various mechanisms have been designed to address the issue of HIV/AIDS in Africa. This thesis addressed the question: 'Are the legislations and policies of Ethiopia, Botswana and Uganda providing for various modalities of HIV testing consistent with human rights as enshrined under African Human Rights system?' The author of this dissertation critically analyzed the African human rights instruments and the relevant domestic legislation and policies of the three countries.</p>

<p>HIV and AIDS present challenges to the well-being of individuals and to public health proportions unpresedented in modern history, and stigma has been identified as the single most contributor to the spread of the HI-virus. While the challenges presented by the AIDS pandemic are scientific and medical, it also has a psychological, legal,&nbsp / economic, social, ethical and religious impact on those infected and affected. The underlying question in this thesis is not whether the church should respond to this urgent societal challenge, but how it ought to respond. To explore this question, the thesis investigated how a New Testament text (as primary resource), particularly Luke's Gospel, could be a resource for shaping/sharpening the church's response to the pandemic.</p>

In this study, the intersection between the changing use and portrayal of the image of Saint Sebastian, and homosexuality, homoeroticism and HIV/AIDS is investigated through use of literary, theoretical, and visual arts materials. Comparisons between the use and portrayal of Saint Sebastian imagery are informed by Halperin's (1995) and Highwater's (1997) gay analyses of Foucault's theories, allowing very recent changes to be addressed and discussed. Their theories of cultural conflict and social repression are also utilised when discussing gay male positions within wider Western society, and the predominantly white Anglo-middle-class gay movement of Australia, North America and Europe. / The diversity of art expression and the extent of thematic intent in gay images portraying Saint Sebastian, challenges many stereotypes and presumptions made about gay men, and indeed about the impact of HIV/AIDS upon the gay male community. In this study, a historical survey of images is conducted in order to trace changing intentions for the image and explain its current popularity in the homosexual community. Although Foucault, Halperin and Highwater do not directly discuss Saint Sebastian imagery, their theories allow the images to be analysed within a current social context. Further, they recognise that current cultural identity is dependent upon the influences and traditions of the past. This recognition of the past is an important influence upon contemporary artists who wish to explore the legend of Saint Sebastian, even when referencing recent themes and issues related to HIV. / Thesis (MVisualArts)--University of South Australia, 1999.

HIV-associated lipodystrophy (HIVLD) syndrome is a condition comprising abnormalities in distribution of body fat and metabolism of lipids and glucose that arises in HIV-infected patients on long-term antiretroviral therapy. This thesis describes clinical research into aspects of the natural history and treatment of HIVLD, as well as molecular research into its pathogenesis centred on subcutaneous adipose tissue. Results demonstrate HIVLD to be a treatment-induced syndrome characterised by initial gains in body fat followed by selective, progressive loss of limb fat. Exposure to thymidineanalogue nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (tNRTI) induces lipoatrophy through mitochondrial dysfunction of which inhibition of mitochondrial RNA expression, rather than mitochondrial DNA depletion, is an early feature. Mitochondrial dysfunction is associated with decreases in expression of peroxisome proliferatoractivated receptor gamma (PPAR??), an adipocyte transcription factor, which helps explain how tNRTI exposure leads to the loss of adipocyte function. Once established, lipoatrophy is characterised by mitochondrial DNA depletion, although this depletion occurs throughout the mitochondrial genome, suggesting an underlying cause other than inhibition of DNA polymerase gamma. HIVLD is a difficult syndrome to treat. Lipoatrophy is resistant to treatment with rosiglitazone, an agonist of PPAR??, which is ineffective in the setting of ongoing tNRTI therapy and mitochondrial dysfunction. Dyslipidaemia is also difficult to treat as use of pravastatin in the setting of ongoing exposure to protease inhibitors results in only modest declines in fasting cholesterol concentrations. Gains in central fat, such as that seen in patients with buffalo hump, are associated with insulin resistance and diabetes, but only occur in a relatively small percentage of treated patients, suggesting a role for genetic factors in its development. Use of strategies such as avoidance of tNRTI in firstline ART, genetic screening to identify those at risk of toxicities and targeted selection of interventions in subgroups of affected patients, may help prevent this syndrome occurring and better treat those patients in which it has already occurred.

Thesis (MPH.--Faculty of Health Sciences)-University of Pretoria, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2007. / Bibliography. Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (MSc)--University of Stellenbosch, 2007. / Bibliography. Also available via the Inernet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Dept. of Psychology. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2006. / "A dissertation in psychology." Advisor: Kathy Goggin. Typescript. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Oct. 31, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 135-151). Online version of the print edition.

Thesis (MA(Psychology))-University of Pretoria, 2006. / Abstract in English. Includes bibliographical references. Available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.P.H.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Community Medicine, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 81-88).