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HIV risks in a homeless population

International Journal of STD & AIDS, 2000
Homeless people are one of the most vulnerable with regard to HIV transmission. However, most research on this population has been carried out on samples from health clinics. We surveyed 390 homeless people in Houston at a day shelter with regard to their HIV/AIDS knowledge and risk behaviours.
D, Lee, M W, Ross, M, Mizwa, D P, Scott
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HIV risk-reduction in adolescents

The Lancet, 2004
The HIV pandemic is a major threat to young people. UNAIDS estimates that 11·8 million people aged 15–24 years are living with HIV/AIDS. Half of all new infections— almost 6000 daily—now occur in young people and in some populations up to a third of those entering adolescence are expected to die of AIDS. Faced with this situation what has been achieved
Judith, Stephenson, Angela, Obasi
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Behavioral risks for HIV in adolescents

Acta Paediatrica, 1994
A psychosocial perspective on adolescent risk behavior is used to highlight aspects of psychological development and social environment that are relevant to sexual activity and substance use. Differences in behavior are also related to factors such as age and gender that have biological, developmental, and demographic implications.
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HIV infection in families of HIV-positive and 'at-risk' HIV-negative women

AIDS Care, 2001
Research of HIV infection within the family has focused upon sexual partners and vertical transmission. The scope of the problem of multiple infections and clustering of HIV among family members has, thus far, been less extensively explored. The objectives of this study are to investigate HIV infection in family members of HIV-seropositive and HIV ...
T, Fiore, T, Flanigan, J, Hogan, R, Cram, P, Schuman, E, Schoenbaum, L, Solomon, J, Moore   +7 more
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Reducing HIV Risk Behaviors: Perceptions of HIV Risk and Stage of Change

Journal of Drug Issues, 1996
The HIV epidemic has had a dramatic impact on the lives of individuals, families, and communities around the world. Originally identified in homosexual men, HIV increasingly affects others, including: (1) those who inject drugs, (2) non-injection drug users who engage in unsafe sex, and (3) non-drug using heterosexuals who engage in high-risk sexual ...
Sally J. Stevens, Antonio L. Estrada
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Assumption of Risk in HIV Infection

Hastings Center Report, 2014
AbstractA commentary on “Time to Decriminalize HIV Status,” from the September‐October 2013 issue.
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The risk of treatment versus the risk of HIV replication

The Lancet, 2006
It has been about 25 years since the initial AIDS case reports and 10 years since the first reports suggesting that combination highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) can potently and perhaps indefinitely suppress HIV replication. During that time several widely accepted conclusions about treatment have emerged. First HAART works.
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HIV risk evaluation.

Australian family physician, 2000
Australia enjoys good control of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by world standards and HIV testing is becoming an increasingly integral part of general practice. Nevertheless, HIV testing remains charged both emotionally and medicolegally.To outline the importance of: determining why a patient is requesting an HIV test; helping establish his or her
B, Donovan, M W, Ross
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HIV Transmission Risk

Journal of Physician Assistant Education, 2020
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HIV Risk Among the Homeless

Journal of Health & Social Policy, 1998
V, Giannetti, P, Freyder
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