Reviewing PrEP's Effect on STI Incidence Among Men Who Have sex with Men-Balancing Increased STI Screening and Potential Behavioral Sexual Risk Compensation. [PDF]
AIDS Behav, 2021 Though pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) can prevent HIV acquisition, it provides no protection against bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
Kumar S, Haderxhanaj LT, Spicknall IH.
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Risk compensation after HIV-1 vaccination may accelerate viral adaptation and reduce cost-effectiveness: a modeling study [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Pathogen populations can evolve in response to selective pressure from vaccine-induced immune responses. For HIV, models predict that viral adaptation, either via strain replacement or selection on de novo mutation, may rapidly reduce the effectiveness ...
Kathryn Peebles +8 more
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Give PrEP a chance: moving on from the "risk compensation" concept. [PDF]
J Int AIDS Soc, 2019 While bio‐behavioural interventions (BIs) for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV prevention have shown their effectiveness (e.g. treatment for syphilis, HPV vaccination or pre‐exposure prophylaxis [PrEP]), they have also aroused major ...
Rojas Castro D, Delabre RM, Molina JM.
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Risk Compensation and Clinical Decision Making - The Case of HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis. [PDF]
N Engl J Med, 2019 Risk Compensation and Clinical Decision Making Uptake of preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV has been limited for multiple reasons, including low awareness.
Marcus JL +3 more
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PrEP Use Among Female Sex Workers: No Evidence for Risk Compensation. [PDF]
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr, 2019 Background: Little is known about risk compensation among female sex workers (FSW) on HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and self-report of sexual behaviours is subject to bias.
Giguère K +11 more
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Sexual Risk Compensation in a Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Demonstration Study Among Individuals at Risk of HIV. [PDF]
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr, 2019 Background: A public health concern regarding HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is sexual risk compensation (ie, increased unsafe sex among PrEP users that may undermine prevention efforts). Methods: This demonstration study (NCT#01761643; initiated in
Milam J +11 more
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Update on HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis: Effectiveness, Drug Resistance, and Risk Compensation. [PDF]
Curr Infect Dis Rep, 2019 Purpose of ReviewIn 2019, the US government launched an initiative to decrease new HIV infections by 90% over the next decade. Studies have demonstrated the efficacy of HIV preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for high-risk populations, and the United States ...
Powell VE +3 more
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Behavioral intention to perform risk compensation behaviors after receiving HPV vaccination among men who have sex with men in China [PDF]
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2019 Men who have sex with men (MSM) are recommended to take up human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. There are concerns that MSM would increase sexual risk behaviors after taking up HPV vaccination, a phenomenon known as risk compensation.
Terence Wu +4 more
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Does Incident Circumcision Lead to Risk Compensation? Evidence From a Population Cohort in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. [PDF]
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr, 2019 Background: Voluntary medical male circumcision reduces men's risk of HIV acquisition and may thus increase HIV risk-related sexual behaviors through risk compensation.
Ortblad KF +5 more
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European Journal of Public Health, 2020 BACKGROUND Public use of face masks has been widely adopted to halter the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, but a key concern has been whether the effectiveness of face mask use is limited due to the elicitation of false feelings of security that decrease the ...
Jørgensen FJ +3 more
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