[PDF] Top 20 Acceptability of pre-exposure prophylaxis among men who have sex with men and transgender women in Northern Thailand.

... preliminary and there are several limitations in this ...use of venue- day-time sampling provides a systematic sample of a hard-to- reach population, this recruitment method is still subject ... See full document

... transmission of the HIV ...use and reduction of sexual partners have been at the center of HIV ...prevention. In the past few years, several biological prevention measures ... See full document

... closely with drug adherence and drug levels. Pill use on 90% or more of days was associated with 73% efficacy, while detectable drug levels were associated with 92% ...Early in ... See full document

... one in three women globally, ranging from 16.3% in East Asia to ...65.6% in central sub-Saharan Africa ...[4,5], and sexual and reproductive health problems ...relationships, ... See full document

... (RDS) and time- location sampling (TLS) offer unique opportunities to access key popula- tions such as men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender ... See full document

... female sex workers (FSW), men who had sex with men (MSM), people who inject drugs (PWID) and transgender women, dis- proportionately ...Legal ... See full document

... engage in the sexual risk behaviors, while the rates of health care utilization were ...VCT acceptability was verified to be related to the physical health and environment ...Those who ... See full document

... use among participants receiving ...conducted in a subset of participants and visits, drug levels were imputed for participants in both arms at any monthly visit missing drug level data ... See full document

... differences, and that nature preferentially selects for ...but in general, we want to contend that evolutionary explanations should be wary of arguments of ...use of existing ... See full document

... conscripts and functional illiterates in other words, young men who would have been unable to respond co- herently to the written questionnaires have always been ex- cluded, ... See full document

... history of ever having had anal intercourse with another man, and were able to give verbal informed consent for HIV screening in local ...frequency of sexual contacts, previous HIV ... See full document

... 2013 in the following da- tabases: EBSCO, Gale, NLM (PubMed Central, PMC, Medline), Oxford University Press, Ex Libris, Web of Knowledge, Elsevier, SpringerLink, Taylor & Francis On- line, PLoS ... See full document

... Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, So fia, Bulgaria); Ulrich Marcus, Susanne Barbara Schink (Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany); Barbara Suligoi, Vincenza Regine (Centro Operativo AIDS, Istituto Superiore di ... See full document

... Furthermore, in multivariate analysis, older age ( 40 years) was another risk factor of HIV infection in both ...consistent with previous studies that showed older MSM to be more at risk for ... See full document

... implementation of the pilot. The first was managing accurate enumeration of MSM reached through social ...months of the pilot, the CLOs and SHARPER team tested a number of different ... See full document

... population and enrollment criteria. First, as the sample is based in Los Angeles, it is possible that participants from other locations might not share the same population ...rates in Los Angeles ... See full document

... survey of five suspected high risk groups, including MSM ...methods and findings related to each population, have been described previously ...Briefly, with respect to MSM, survey participants ... See full document

... sake of the women that I have been working with so ...I have been working for the last six or seven ...I have worked with these women for a noble ...I have ... See full document

... group of ‘26 – 40 years’ accounted for most cases, followed by the ‘18 – 25 years’ ...countries of origin, although most cases corresponded to Portuguese MSM, our sample included also several foreigners, ... See full document

... total of 18 weeks. Swabbing of the anal and genital regions for viral pathogens was performed by two ...junction and rotating for approximately 20 seconds. Surface swabbing of the ... See full document