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BACKGROUND: In today's world, the mass media plays an important role, and it can provide a unified platform for all public health communication, comprehensive healthcare education, and guidelines. As a result, we investigated the various types of general health and oral health messages and advertisements broadcast through various forms of mass media. OBJECTIVE: The main objective is to identify & analyze the health & oral-health related dialogue and messages with the content of the mass media. METHOD: ology: Content analysis of general health and oral health-related advertisements was done in various media, like the print media (magazines & newspapers), television (audio-visual) and radio stations (audio). The data was collected by an independent investigator, like prime time, advertisements, articles, and public service announcements (PSAs), etc., and the observations were recorded for subsequent analysis. RESULTS: Only n â= â753 incidents of health n â= â663 (88.1%) and oral health n â= â90 (11.9%) were reported during the study period, out of 6180 pages of published print media and 200 âh of prime-time broadcast channel & station advertisements, respectively. There are n â= â506 incidents in the print media, implying that health n â= â481 (95.1%) and oral health n â= â25 (4.9%) are, respectively. Compared to other media, audio-visual media, n â= â229, show 26.7% of incidents of oral health information (n 58), while 73.3% of incidents are of general health information (n 171). Only 38.9% of oral health incidents (n â= â7) were broadcast during prime time. CONCLUSION: The findings of this study may help promoters, policymakers, public health providers, and other stakeholders, to be more precise about general or oral health-related information to be effective in the messages the mass media have been utilizing and in improving future health.
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There is a paucity of literature on renal diseases associated with HIV infection in Asian countries. Renal disease in HIV-infected children can involve the glomerulus, interstitium, tubules or blood vessels of the kidney. In this case series, five HIV-infected children with various forms of renal disease are reported. The renal pathology included HIV-associated nephropathy, collapsing focal segmental glomerulosclerosis without tubular changes, tubule-interstitial nephritis and minimal change disease (MCD). Case five fulfilled the classification criteria for childhood polyarteritis nodosa (PAN). It is important to screen all HIV-infected children for renal disease to enable detection at an early stage.