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Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2023 The continual expansion of developmental frontiers has impacted dramatically upon Indigenous health in Brazil. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in Mato Grosso do Sul, its Indigenous populations were already living in circumstances of environmental ...
Raquel Dias-Scopel +2 more
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Misdiagnosis, Mistreatment, and Harm - When Medical Care Ignores Social Forces. [PDF]
, 2020 The Case Studies in Social Medicine demonstrate that when physicians use only biologic or individual behavioral interventions to treat diseases that stem from or are exacerbated by social factors, we risk harming the patients we seek to ...
Farmer, Paul E +8 more
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The predominant relationship between sexual environment characteristics and HIV-serodiscordant condomless anal sex among HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) [PDF]
, 2016 In some studies, situational factors have been shown to be stronger predictors of condomless sex than individual risk factors. Cross-sectional relationships between condomless anal sex (CAS) with HIV-serodiscordant partners and risk factors across ...
Elsesser, Steven +4 more
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Low levels of chemsex among men who have sex with men, but high levels of risk among men who engage in chemsex: analysis of a cross-sectional online survey across four countries [PDF]
, 2018 Background: This paper establishes the prevalence of chemsex drug use among men who have sex with men (MSM), the extent to which these drugs are used in a sexual context, as well as their associated behaviours and circumstances of use. Methods: Data from
Bourne, Adam +3 more
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Linkage to Care Is Important and Necessary When Identifying Infections in Migrants. [PDF]
, 2018 Migration is an important driver of population dynamics in Europe. Although migrants are generally healthy, subgroups of migrants are at increased risk of a range of infectious diseases.
Hargreaves, S +3 more
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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2022 Pandemics do not exist in isolation and COVID-19 is no exception. We argue that existing health crises, notably substance use disorder (SUD), developed syndemic relationships with COVID-19 that produced compounding deleterious effects.
Andrew Burns, Kat Albrecht
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Frontiers in Public HealthIntroductionPeople living with HIV (PLWH) may be exposed to harmful political, social, economic and environmental factors that exacerbate their risk of mental health conditions.
Atitegeb Abera Kidie +10 more
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Vestnik Dermatologii i Venerologii, 2017 A review article presents theoretical basics of the development of innovative STI prevention programs for high-risk groups Urgent need for integrated multidisciplinary preventive strategies aimed at correcting risky behaviors and adapted for the ...
T. V. Krasnoselskikh, E. V. Sokolovskiy
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Framing substance use disorders among forcibly displaced people through a syndemics lens.
European Psychiatry, 2023 Syndemics are synergistically interacting epidemics (for example, the epidemics of substance use disorders and forced displacement) in a particular context with shared drivers such as pre-existing political, structural, social and health conditions ...
J. Tay Wee Teck
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PLoS ONE, 2022 Introduction The scale-up of access to antiretroviral therapy has transformed HIV from an acute, terminal disease to a manageable chronic illness. Yet, sustaining high levels of antiretroviral therapy adherence remain a challenge, especially in the sub ...
Anton Delport +3 more
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