This study explored a novel systemic community-based model for detecting and manag-ing people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). Both quantitative and qualitative research methods were used in this study. A quantitative qu...This study explored a novel systemic community-based model for detecting and manag-ing people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). Both quantitative and qualitative research methods were used in this study. A quantitative questionnaire investigation was conducted in a sample of 1192 subjects which were randomly selected from two areas with high HIV prevalence, Xiangfan City and Shiyan City of Hubei Province, China. Twenty-two medical and health service staffs were inter-viewed by semi-structured questionnaire focusing on awareness, status, problems, and suggestions about community-based Voluntary Counseling and Testing and Provider Initiated Testing and Coun-seling (VCT/PITC). And they were organized to discuss about the aforementioned issues in Xiangfan City and Shiyan City, respectively. Our results showed that the accessibility and availability of the general VCT/PITC were bad. About 28.3% had known and only 4.9% had made use of VCT/PITC. Developing community-based VCT/PITC had some special advantages that can overcome some ex-isting problems to remedy the aforementioned defects. We are led to conclude that, to maximize the availability and uptake rate of the VCT/PITC, we plan to detect PLWHA by developing the commu-nity-based VCT/PITC through 4 paths. Then we establish the community HIV health care center con-stituted of 8 sectors to provide an overall management. Thus, we can effectively detect and manage the PLWHA with a new systemic community-based model.展开更多
For this special section on software systems, six research leaders in software systems, as guest editors tor this special section, discuss important issues that will shape this field＇s future research directions. The...For this special section on software systems, six research leaders in software systems, as guest editors tor this special section, discuss important issues that will shape this field＇s future research directions. The essays included in this roundtable article cover research opportunities and challenges for large-scale software systems such as querying organization- wide software behaviors （Xusheng Xiao）, logging and log analysis （Jian-Ouang Lou）, engineering reliable cloud distributed systems （Shan Lu）, usage data （David C. Shepherd）, clone detection and management （Xin Peng）, and code search and beyond （Qian-Xiang Wang）. - Tao Xie, Leading Editor of Software Systems.展开更多
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文摘This study explored a novel systemic community-based model for detecting and manag-ing people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). Both quantitative and qualitative research methods were used in this study. A quantitative questionnaire investigation was conducted in a sample of 1192 subjects which were randomly selected from two areas with high HIV prevalence, Xiangfan City and Shiyan City of Hubei Province, China. Twenty-two medical and health service staffs were inter-viewed by semi-structured questionnaire focusing on awareness, status, problems, and suggestions about community-based Voluntary Counseling and Testing and Provider Initiated Testing and Coun-seling (VCT/PITC). And they were organized to discuss about the aforementioned issues in Xiangfan City and Shiyan City, respectively. Our results showed that the accessibility and availability of the general VCT/PITC were bad. About 28.3% had known and only 4.9% had made use of VCT/PITC. Developing community-based VCT/PITC had some special advantages that can overcome some ex-isting problems to remedy the aforementioned defects. We are led to conclude that, to maximize the availability and uptake rate of the VCT/PITC, we plan to detect PLWHA by developing the commu-nity-based VCT/PITC through 4 paths. Then we establish the community HIV health care center con-stituted of 8 sectors to provide an overall management. Thus, we can effectively detect and manage the PLWHA with a new systemic community-based model.
文摘For this special section on software systems, six research leaders in software systems, as guest editors tor this special section, discuss important issues that will shape this field＇s future research directions. The essays included in this roundtable article cover research opportunities and challenges for large-scale software systems such as querying organization- wide software behaviors （Xusheng Xiao）, logging and log analysis （Jian-Ouang Lou）, engineering reliable cloud distributed systems （Shan Lu）, usage data （David C. Shepherd）, clone detection and management （Xin Peng）, and code search and beyond （Qian-Xiang Wang）. - Tao Xie, Leading Editor of Software Systems.
