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January 1, 2019
This is a time of simultaneous urgency, promise, and injustice for sexual and gender minorities worldwide. Globally, LGBTQ populations face an HIV/AIDS epidemic among men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women, higher prevalence of substance use ...
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January 1, 2018
Men who have sex with men (MSM) include gay and bisexual men, MSM who do not identify as gay or bisexual despite their behaviors, male sex workers, and transgender men who have sex with men who identify as gay or have sex with other men. The term “MSM” was ...
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December 1, 2009
Despite vigorous efforts on the part of the international community, and an unprecedented level of research across an enormous variety of fields, HIV/AIDS has become the most severe infectious disease epidemic of modern times. HIV spread is either accelera ...
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December 1, 2008
As of December 2007, UNAIDS estimated that the number of people living with HIV in 2007 was 33.2 million, including some 30.8 million adults, half of whom were women, and 2.5 million children under the age of 15 years (UNAIDS, 2007) (Figures 1.1-1.4). © Sp ...
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December 1, 2008
At the close of 2006, according to UNAIDS (2007) 33.2 million persons were estimated to be living with HIV, with 2.5 million new infections and 2.1 million deaths being registered that year (see Figure 32.1 for global AIDS death regional data). These numbe ...
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December 1, 2008
Burma's [Myanmar] HIV/AIDS epidemic (Beyrer et al. 2006a) has been relatively similar to its Southeast Asian neighbors, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. Much less is known about HIV/AIDS in Burma, however, compared to the other relatively well-studied outbr ...
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December 1, 2008
The injection of medications and the development of intravenous infusions have saved countless lives since these tools of modern medicine were developed. Injection as a route of drug administration provides some obvious advantages to medicine: doses can be ...
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December 1, 2008
There is mounting evidence that the spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is associated with heroin trafficking routes. The relationship between the two is best illustrated by the routes leading from the two primary regions for the illicit opium ...
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December 1, 2008
The global pandemic of HIV-1 began in Africa, perhaps as many as 75 years ago, in a complex series of species cross-overs involving the original old world monkey hosts of this class of viruses, and subsequently our closest relatives, the Chimpanzees, and t ...
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January 1, 2007
The injection of medications and the development of intravenous infusions have saved countless lives since these tools of modern medicine were developed. Injection as a route of drug administration provides some obvious advantages to medicine: doses can be ...
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December 1, 2005
This chapter describes several public-health and political measures that are needed to prevent an AIDS disaster in Asia. The patterns of HIV spread across Asia have differed in some important ways from those seen in Africa and the West. AIDS in Southeast A ...
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December 29, 2004
This chapter describes several public-health and political measures that are needed to prevent an AIDS disaster in Asia. The patterns of HIV spread across Asia have differed in some important ways from those seen in Africa and the West. AIDS in Southeast A ...
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