[PDF] Top 20 Factors Associated with Low Levels of HIV Testing among Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) in Brazil.

... years of age or older and resident in Manaus, Recife, Salvador, Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Curitiba, Itajaí, Brasília or Campo ...Ministry of Health, who funded this ...assumption ... See full document

... number of men who have sex with men (MSM) infected with HIV-1 in Taiwan has in- creased rapidly in the past few ...goal of this ... See full document

... considerations with data availability and the programmatic relevance of distinguishing particular subgroups, but it has ...complexity in sexual behaviour in this population into a simplified ... See full document

... Recent HIV testing was most highly associated with visiting a health care provider in the past 12 months and disclosing male- male attraction or sexual behavior to a health care ... See full document

... RDS have been implemented within the broader context of the Sialon II prevention ...activities. HIV/STI prevention and testing promotion activities are theoretically grounded in two ... See full document

... maintenance of the confidentiality of the serological result. In all of them, the major concern was the boundaries between maintaining the confidentiality of the diagnosis and revealing ... See full document

... health of gay, bisexual and other MSM ...screening of YMSM for histories of physical violence, and for improved mental health, harm reduction and social-structural supports to prevent HIV ... See full document

... prevalence of HIV-1 subtype B and F1 dual infections in recently infected Brazilian ...MSM. Among the 41 subjects studied, ...circulating in Brazil, which is a country that ... See full document

... influence HIV risk.[9–14] HIV prevalence in a sexual net- work, and the position of an individual within that network, may have as much effect on a per- son’s risk for HIV as ... See full document

... number of qualitative studies explored the significance of inter-personal factors in ex- plaining risk behaviors among ...duration of regular partnership and familiarity ... 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 ... See full document

... towards men who have sex with men (MSM) in Ghana affects their ability to access critical information and services for the care and prevention of ...HIV. ... See full document

... chances of LTFU fell with age and participants who were official residents of other provinces in China had higher odds of drop ...migration of younger population. Young, ... See full document

... use among MSM are consistent with ethnographic and survey findings throughout the Sub-Saharan Africa ...found among heterosexual populations, assumptions of trust between partners serves as a ... See full document

... study have implications for future prevention strategies. The greatest fall in the HIV transmission rate occurred during a time when testing and treatment were introduced, but when there were ... See full document

... longitudinal HIV-prevention ...one of six mutually exclusive risk categories: (1) no unprotected anal intercourse (UAI), (2) having a single negative partner, (3) being an exclusive top (only insertive anal ... See full document

... for HIV: learning from the experiences of HIV-infected women in ...risk factors for HIV infection among homosexual and bisexual men in ...al. Men ... See full document

... ratio of the optical density of the color generated by the sample to the optical density of a standard calibrator; IR) ...Tests with an IR ...participants with an IR ,3.5 were retested ... See full document

... city of São Paulo, Q varied from 1.45 to 1.13, resulting in a 22% ...lated, with a maximum value in 1997 and a minimum value in 2000; stabilizing after ...population in São Paulo ... See full document

... as with all population-based studies, RDS is not immune from sampling bias as shown in several studies ...Some of those biases include differential recruitment effectiveness (when some groups are ... See full document