SELF-EFFICACY IN PROTECTING ONESELF AGAINST HIV TRANSMISSION: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF FEMALE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN MALAWI

Self-efficacy in protecting oneself against HIV transmission: A qualitative study of female university students in Malawi

color lux blue conditioner This article deals with the complexity of health behaviour from a self-efficacy perspective, and shows the naivety in assuming knowledge as the main guide to better protection against HIV.The authors accentuate the importance of local knowledge when developing health strategies as in the case of protection against HIV, in

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Co-housing of Rift Valley fever virus infected lambs with immunocompetent or immunosuppressed lambs does not result in virus transmission

Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is transmitted among susceptible animals by mosquito vectors.Although the virus can be isolated from nasal and oral swabs of infected animals and is known to be highly infectious when administered experimentally via oral or respiratory route, horizontal transmission of the virus is only sporadically reported in litera

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Parasitic success and venom composition evolve upon specialization of parasitoid wasps to different host species

Female endoparasitoid wasps usually inject venom into hosts to suppress their immune response and ensure offspring development.However, the parasitoids ability to evolve towards increased success on a given host simultaneously with the evolution of the composition of its venom has never been demonstrated.Here, we designed an experimental evolution

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