Three and half decades following the identification of HIV, the disease remains a global health concern as people get infected with the virus which has no cure coupled with the unavailability of vaccines. The discovery of some drugs has classified the disease into a chronic disea...
Background: Opioids are a group of potent analgesic with mixed receptor activities. Pain related symptom accounts for the main reason for substance dependence among sickle cell disease (SCD) patients. Aims: The report aims to elucidate the adverse effects of opioid and its compli...
Objective: This study sought to establish the correlation between haematological parameters and inflammatory cytokines (TNF-α and IL-6) and also to compare the effects of these cytokines in HIV/AIDS patients on HAART and HAART naïve. Place and Duration of Study: Komfo Anokye Teac...
Aim: To advocate the use of newer and improved methods towards accurate diagnosis of haemoglobinopathies Case Presentation: A rare case of double heterozygous of HbD/G in a pregnant female Nigerian who had present to the antenatal clinic for routine Haemoglobin electrophoresis. S...
About 7% of the world’s population is carriers of some form of haemoglobin disorder. There are about 270 million carriers of sickle cell anemia and/or thalassemia. The level of ovarian steroids (Estradiol and progesterone) alters in puberty age girls suffering from sickle cell an...