Profile of male Brazilian injecting drug users who have sex with men
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Profile of male Brazilian injecting drug users who have sex with men.
This study aims to characterize the profile of male injecting drug users who have sex with other men (MSM IDUs) recruited through a cross-sectional multi-city survey (AjUDE-Brasil II Project) in six Brazilian cities, in 2000-2001. MSM IDUs were compared to other male IDUs using bivariate and multivariate procedures (logistic regression and answer tree analysis with the CHAID algorithm). Among t...
متن کاملDC-SIGN Polymorphisms Associate with Risk of Hepatitis C Virus Infection Among Men who Have Sex with Men but not Among Injecting Drug Users
We aimed to identify whether genetic polymorphisms within L-SIGN or DC-SIGN correlate with hepatitis C virus (HCV) susceptibility. A men who have sex with men (MSM) and an injecting drug users (IDU) cohort of HCV cases and multiple-exposed uninfected controls were genotyped for numerous L-SIGN and DC-SIGN polymorphisms. DC-SIGN single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) -139, -871, and -939 correla...
متن کاملMen who have sex with men.
HIV impacts men, women and children of all races, genders, ethnicities and sexual identities; however, a disproportionate number of men who have sex with men (MSM) continue to be heavily impacted in the United States. According to the CDC, MSM accounted for 71% of all HIV infections among males in 2005, even though only five to seven percent of adult males identify themselves as MSM (CDC, 2007)...
متن کاملMale circumcision and the risk of HIV infection in men who have sex with men.
The suggestion by two decades of observational epidemiological data of a partially protective effect of male circumcision on HIV acquisition in heterosexual men has now been confirmed in three randomized controlled trials conducted in subSaharan Africa. Together these trials show that male circumcision reduces the incidence of HIV infection in sexually active, heterosexual men by at least half....
متن کاملThe Lisbon Cohort of men who have sex with men
PURPOSE Newly diagnosed HIV infections among men who have sex with men (MSM) are rising in many European countries. Surveillance tools must be tailored to the current state of the epidemic, and include decentralised prospective monitoring of HIV incidence and behavioural changes in key populations. In this scenario, an open prospective cohort study was assembled--The Lisbon Cohort of MSM--aimin...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cadernos de Saúde Pública
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0102-311X
DOI: 10.1590/s0102-311x2006000400023