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International Journal of Dermatology, EarlyView.Cross‐sectional study among 70 sexual health clinic attendees (70% MSM) in Bucharest combining multisite STI testing with knowledge, attitudes, and practices assessment. Key findings include 35.5% bacterial STI prevalence, essential extragenital testing, and cost barriers to screening uptake.
Andrei Tanasov, George‐Sorin Tiplica
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Non-communicable disease syndemics: poverty, depression, and diabetes among low-income populations. [PDF]
The co-occurrence of health burdens in transitioning populations, particularly in specific socioeconomic and cultural contexts, calls for conceptual frameworks to improve understanding of risk factors, so as to better design and implement prevention and ...
Kohrt, Brandon A +4 more
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Stigma as a fundamental hindrance to the United States opioid overdose crisis response. [PDF]
, 2019 Alexander Tsai and co-authors discuss the role of stigma in responses to the US opioid ...
Barnett, Michael L +9 more
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Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, Volume 119, Issue 5, Page 1136-1140, May 2026.As antiretroviral therapy (ART) prolongs lifespans, people with HIV (PWH) face a new syndemic: Cardiovascular‐Kidney‐Metabolic (CKM) syndrome. Yet CKM in PWH is poorly characterized. Inflammation, complex pharmacokinetic (PK) alterations, ART‐associated metabolic effects, and gut dysbiosis amplify risk. Managing CKM increases medication burden, thereby
Aaron S. Devanathan, Thomas D. Nolin
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Frontiers in Public HealthSyndemics involving Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) remain a major public health challenge in sub-Saharan Africa, and understanding their spatial and temporal dynamics is critical for effective ...
Exaverio Chireshe +5 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 A syndemic framework examines disease interactions and the contributions of structural, social, economic, and environmental factors that synergistically interact to contribute to adverse health outcomes.
Rosemary M. Caron, Semra A. Aytur
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Whispers of Pathogens; Social Contagion in Infectious Disease Dynamics: A Review
Health Science Reports, Volume 9, Issue 5, May 2026.ABSTRACT Background and Aims Infectious disease dynamics are deeply intertwined with social structures, behaviors, and information systems. This narrative review examines how social factors conceptualized through the integrated lens of “social contagion” within a syndemic framework shape infectious disease patterns from January 2000 to January 2024 ...
Sayed Mortaza Fayez
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Journal of Medical Virology, Volume 98, Issue 5, May 2026.ABSTRACT Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) remain a major global health threat. A comprehensive assessment of their epidemiological features and future trajectories is essential for informing targeted public health policies and achieving international control targets.
Baigong Feng +5 more
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Percolation transitions in the survival of interdependent agents on multiplex networks, catastrophic cascades, and SOS [PDF]
, 2015 The "SOS" in the title does not refer to the international distress signal, but to "solid-on-solid" (SOS) surface growth. The catastrophic cascades are those observed by Buldyrev {\it et al.} in interdependent networks, which we re-interpret as multiplex
Grassberger, Peter
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Advancing Pharmacoequity in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries via Model Informed Drug Development
Clinical and Translational Science, Volume 19, Issue 5, May 2026.ABSTRACT Across low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) inequities in access to safe, effective medicines persist due to limited regulatory capacity, inadequate financing, and insufficient local data. Regulatory authorities are engaging with model‐informed drug development (MIDD), but uneven technical readiness and resource gaps limit uptake ...
Henry Enzama +5 more
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