Social determinants of HIV/HCV co-infection: A case study from people who inject drugs in rural Puerto Rico

• Co-infection correlates with age, longer period of drug use, medical insurance coverage and sexual identity. • LGBT PWID are vulnerable to co-infection. Stigma, commercial sex and violence compounds risk. • Culturally sensitive prevention strategies focused on this particular population should be...

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Autores principales: Abadie, Roberto, Welch-Lazoritz, Melissa, Khan, Bilal, Dombrowski, Kirk
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Research paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5624334/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28983502
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2017.01.004
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author Abadie, Roberto
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description • Co-infection correlates with age, longer period of drug use, medical insurance coverage and sexual identity. • LGBT PWID are vulnerable to co-infection. Stigma, commercial sex and violence compounds risk. • Culturally sensitive prevention strategies focused on this particular population should be implemented to avoid co-infection.
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spelling pubmed-56243342018-02-15 Social determinants of HIV/HCV co-infection: A case study from people who inject drugs in rural Puerto Rico Abadie, Roberto Welch-Lazoritz, Melissa Khan, Bilal Dombrowski, Kirk Addict Behav Rep Research paper • Co-infection correlates with age, longer period of drug use, medical insurance coverage and sexual identity. • LGBT PWID are vulnerable to co-infection. Stigma, commercial sex and violence compounds risk. • Culturally sensitive prevention strategies focused on this particular population should be implemented to avoid co-infection. Elsevier 2017-01-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5624334/ /pubmed/28983502 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2017.01.004 Text en © 2017 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title Social determinants of HIV/HCV co-infection: A case study from people who inject drugs in rural Puerto Rico
title_full Social determinants of HIV/HCV co-infection: A case study from people who inject drugs in rural Puerto Rico
title_fullStr Social determinants of HIV/HCV co-infection: A case study from people who inject drugs in rural Puerto Rico
title_full_unstemmed Social determinants of HIV/HCV co-infection: A case study from people who inject drugs in rural Puerto Rico
title_short Social determinants of HIV/HCV co-infection: A case study from people who inject drugs in rural Puerto Rico
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5624334/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28983502
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2017.01.004
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