People who inject drugs (PWID) is a heterogeneous and hard-to-reach group due to legal implications, stigma and discrimination. PWID are vulnerable to various poor health outcomes including HIV and hepatitis due to ongoing injection and sexual risk behaviours, various forms of a…
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HIV/AIDS continues to be a public health concern, particularly for African American young adults, who experience higher rates of morbidity and mortality related to HIV/AIDS when compared to other races. Individual-level risk behaviors such as inconsistent use of condoms and othe…
A infeção por retrovírus contribui para o desenvolvimento de linfoma em gatos e, apesar de estar associada a uma menor sobrevida, os estudos mais recentes não apontam como um fator determinante na avaliação do prognóstico desses indivíduos. No entanto, estes estudos foram realiz…
Fungal infections cause an estimated 13 million life-threatening infections and 1.6 million deaths annually. The burden of invasive fungal infections (IFIs) reflects immunocompromise resulting from the rise in HIV/AIDS and iatrogenic immunosuppressive therapy. Cryptococcal menin…
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an emerging risk factor for HIV infection. Given the high vulnerability of and limited research on transwomen in China, we described IPV, sexual risk behaviors, HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) testing rates and results, and inves…
The concept of patient confidentiality is nearly as old as the practice of health professions and has evolved over the years, from one jurisdiction to the other. The duty of patient confidentiality can be a fundamental human right, an ethical duty or a legal duty. Under the Saud…
My thesis is an exploration of how human rights are understood and experienced by Papua New Guinean people living with HIV, men with diverse sexualities and transgender women. I examine the emergence and progress of two organisations established by these communities: Igat Hope a…
This dissertation is about queer and trans folks who experienced houselessness during their youth, between the 1970s and the 2010s in Ontario, Canada. These archival and oral history stories serve to mobilize knowledge about community building, poverty, and identity-based discri…
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between degrees of AIDS knowledge, economic class/income levels, and high-risk sexual behavior in the low, middle and high-income classes in Owerri, Nigeria. High-risk sexual behavior or unprotected sex is a cofactor in …
Background . Although injection drug use emerged as the initial propellant of HIV in Central Asia, the epidemic may be verging on widespread diffusion through bridge populations to the general population. While HIV incidence appears to be increasing sharply, the absolute number …
Since the late 1990s, the Indonesian government acknowledged that the national HIV/AIDS epidemic had escalated from a "low-level" to a "concentrated" epidemic. National adult prevalence was reported as 0.1% for 2001, while the 2007 estimate for Bali province is 0.2%. Indonesia i…
Since 1985, our laboratory has been conducting a prospective study of a cohort of registered female sex workers (FSW) in Dakar, Senegal. Initial surveys of the different HIV-1 subtypes circulating in the cohort revealed that, while a majority of the women were infected with the …
This study demonstrates the relationship between HIV/AIDS and human security in Nigeria, focusing on three conceptual frameworks of human security namely economic security, family security and community institutions (that is the military and education sectors). I specifically ex…
We conducted a cross-sectional screening study of HIV-1 and HIV-2, human papillomavirus (HPV), and cervical intraepithelial lesions (SIL) in previously unscreened women in an outpatient infectious disease clinic in Dakar, Senegal. In addition, we conducted a prospective study of…