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HIV-Related Risk Behaviors Among the General Population: A Survey
(2012)
This article, although from a different continent, confirms the fact that people in the general population, but not exclusively so, do not perceive
themselves at risk of acquiring HIV infection, even when they have had ...
Service engagement with high-risk men who have sex with men: challenges and implications for social work practice
(Taylor Francis, 2009)
This article reviews social work challenges in treatment engagement of men who have sex with men (MSM) and details issues co-morbidity creates for reaching HIV-positive MSM engaged in substance abuse. The literature reviewed ...
Assessment of strategies for male involvement in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV services in Blantyre, Malawi.
(2013)
BACKGROUND:
Despite the documented benefits of prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) services, the uptake remains low in sub-Saharan Africa. The lack of male involvement ...
Global estimates of syphilis in pregnancy and associated adverse outcomes: analysis of multinational antenatal surveillance data.
(2013)
BACKGROUND:
The World Health Organization initiative to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of syphilis aims for ≥ 90% of pregnant women to be tested for syphilis and ≥ 90% to receive treatment by 2015. We calculated ...
Consultations for sexually transmitted infections in the general practice in the Netherlands: an opportunity to improve STI/HIV testing.
(BMJ, 2013)
OBJECTIVES:
In the Netherlands, sexually transmitted infection (STI) care is provided by general practitioners (GPs) as well as by specialised STI centres. Consultations at the STI centres are monitored extensively, but ...
Decline in the prevalence of HIV and sexually transmitted infections among female sex workers in Benin over 15 years of targeted interventions.
(Wolters Kluwer, 2013)
BACKGROUND:
An HIV-preventive intervention targeting the sex work milieu and involving fully integrated components of structural interventions, communication for behavioral change and care for sexually transmitted ...
Systemic lupus erythematosus at the Kenyatta National Hospital
(University of Nairobi, 2012)