How do club drugs impact HIV prevention?
What are club drugs?
Club drugs are illegal drugs that are often, although not exclusively, used at dance clubs, raves and circuit parties. Drugs often referred to as club drugs include: MDMA (ecstasy), methamphetamine (crystal meth, speed), GHB (liquid X), Ketamine (special K) and less often, Viagra and amyl nitrites (poppers)1. These drugs also are often used outside of clubs and parties.
How does HIV prevention work on different levels?
what are levels?
HIV prevention is not just about changing individual behavior. Many other factors also influence HIV transmission, such as relationships with family and friends, community norms, access to health care and local laws.
¿Cómo opera la prevención del VIH a diferentes niveles?
¿qué queremos decir con niveles?
La prevención del VIH no depende exclusivamente de lograr cambios en la conducta individual. Hay muchos otros factores que influyen en la transmisión del VIH como las relaciones entre familiares, entre amistades, los valores comunitarios, el acceso a servicios médicos y las leyes locales.
By the end of 2002, over 2 million adults were incarcerated in the US, and 93% of those were men. African Americans and Latinos were incarcerated at greater rates than Whites in the US, 7.6 times greater for African Americans and 2.6 times greater for Latinos. Nearly 40% of incarcerated men were under the age of 30. Young men of color are at high risk of incarceration and the health problems related to incarceration.
The following Spanish-language survey has been used to assess risk behavior. It was developed through the Hermanos de Luna y Sol program, a culturally appropriate HIV risk–reduction intervention that targeted immigrant, Spanish-speaking gay and bisexual men in San Francisco.
¿Cuál es el papel de la consejería y prueba en la prevención del VIH?
¿por qué es tan importante la C&P?
La consejería y prueba (C&P) del VIH es un componente importante en la gama de servicios de prevención y tratamiento del VIH. Ya que la visita para la C&P incluye una evaluación individual integral de riesgo, ésta ofrece la mejor oportunidad para remitir al cliente a otros servicios más intensivos.
La consejería y prueba (C&P) del VIH es un componente importante en la gama de servicios de prevención y tratamiento del VIH. Ya que la visita para la C&P incluye una evaluación individual integral de riesgo, ésta ofrece la mejor oportunidad para remitir al cliente a otros servicios más intensivos. Por otra parte, la C&P es una de las entradas a los servicios de prevención y a otros servicios.
What Is the Role of Counseling and Testing in HIV Prevention?
why is C&T important?
HIV counseling and testing (C&T) is an important part of a continuum of HIV prevention and treatment services. C&T is one of the main times when a comprehensive individual risk assessment is taken, making it the best opportunity for accurate referrals to more intensive services. C&T is also one of the primary entry points into prevention and other services.
HIV counseling and testing (C&T) is an important part of a continuum of HIV prevention and treatment services. C&T is one of the main times when a comprehensive individual risk assessment is taken, making it the best opportunity for accurate referrals to more intensive services. C&T is also one of the primary entry points into prevention and other services.
Can an HIV Vaccine make a Difference?
why do we need an HIV vaccine?
Vaccines are among the most powerful and cost-effective disease prevention tools available. A vaccine that could prevent HIV infection or stop progression of the disease would greatly help in the fight against the AIDS pandemic.
Vaccines are among the most powerful and cost-effective disease prevention tools available. A vaccine that could prevent HIV infection or stop progression of the disease would greatly help in the fight against the AIDS pandemic. Vaccines have been pivotal in worldwide smallpox elimination efforts, have nearly eliminated polio and have drastically reduced the incidence of infectious diseases like measles and pertussis in the US.
Las vacunas son una de las herramientas más poderosas y costo-efectivas que tenemos para evitar las enfermedades. Una vacuna que impidiera la infección por VIH o que detuviera la progresión de la enfermedad ayudaría considerablemente en la lucha contra la pandemia del SIDA. Una pregunta crucial es si una vacuna basada en una determinada cepa del VIH sería eficaz para poblaciones en las cuales predomina otra cepa.
¿Puede una vacuna contra el VIH lograr cambios significativos?
¿por qué necesitamos una vacuna?
Las vacunas son una de las herramientas más poderosas y costo-efectivas que tenemos para evitar las enfermedades. Una vacuna que impidiera la infección por VIH o que detuviera la progresión de la enfermedad ayudaría considerablemente en la lucha contra la pandemia del SIDA.
¿Cuál es el efecto del abuso sexual infantil en la prevención del VIH?
¿qué es el abuso sexual infantil?
El abuso sexual infantil (ASI) tiene muchas definiciones, pero en esta hoja informativa nos referimos al contacto corporal no deseado antes de los 18 años, que es la edad en que se considera que una persona puede dar su consentimiento para tener contacto sexual.
El abuso sexual infantil (ASI) tiene muchas definiciones, pero en esta hoja informativa nos referimos al contacto corporal no deseado antes de los 18 años, que es la edad en que se considera que una persona puede dar su consentimiento para tener contacto sexual. El ASI es una experiencia dolorosa a muchos niveles que puede tener, posteriormente, efectos profundos y devastadores en el desarrollo psicológico, psicosocial y emocional.
Childhood sexual abuse may be defined in many ways, but this fact sheet refers to unwanted sexual body contact prior to age 18, the age of consent to engage in sex. CSA is a painful experience on many levels that can have a profound and devastating effect on later physiological, psychosocial and emotional development.
How does childhood sexual abuse affect HIV prevention?
What is childhood sexual abuse?
Childhood sexual abuse may be defined in many ways, but this fact sheet refers to unwanted sexual body contact prior to age 18, the age of consent to engage in sex.
What is the effect of HIV treatment on HIV prevention?
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Why HIV treatment and prevention?
Traditionally, HIV prevention efforts have focused on uninfected persons at risk, encouraging them to adopt and maintain safer sex and drug-using behavior that would keep them uninfected. Less attention was paid to prevention among persons who were already infected, where the priority was maintaining their health in the face of a devastating disease.
Injecting drug use accounts for nearly one-third (36%) of cumulative AIDS cases in the US, and for 28% of the 42,156 new AIDS cases reported in 2000. These cases include injecting drug users (IDUs), their sexual partners and children born to them. African Americans and Latinos are disproportionately affected by IDU-associated AIDS. In 2000, the proportion of IDU-associated AIDS cases was 26% for African Americans, 31% for Latinos and 19% for whites.
