The Authors’ Reply: Some Comments on the Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior of HIV/AIDS Patients’ Family toward Their Patients before and after Counseling

We would like to thank dr badrodin najmi for his comments on our paper published in a recent issueof ijms.1 the followings are our response to the points raised by dr. najmi. as it was explained in the result section of the abstract, 44% of interviewees had spousal relationship with their patients. the rest of the participants, who were from minor groups, were presented in detail in the text of the paper. in the materials and methods section, it was clearly explained that the each interviewee was invited and interviewed separately. moreover, as it was indicated in the paper, the study was an interventional one. also, lines 1-7 of the second paragraph of materials and methods section read that the interviewees were introduced by hiv positive patients and were included in the study only if they knew about the positivity of hiv status of their patients, and had close and trusty relationships with them. children couldn’t be subjects for this study.