Female IDUs (n=100) in St Petersburg, Russia participated; 37% reported a history of sex trading. This group reported a mean of 49.5 male sexual partners in the previous month and an average of 15.4 unprotected vaginal intercourse acts in the previous 30 days. A significant minority (44%)...
The research presented in this paper details the results of an assessment of the risk factors associated with having a positive syphilis or HIV serology. The study was conducted using a sample of not-in-treatment drug users volunteering to participate in an HIV risk reduction intervention. The ...
He avoided dirty money at the lower echelons of the drug trade by trading firearms for drugs. He acquired firearms from criminal associates or from gun shows at good rates and traded them for an inflated value to the drug wholesalers. He then used the proceeds from the drug sales to pay ...
The risk factors for women are trading sex for money, being American Indian or Alaska Native, perceiving oneself as homeless, and trading sex for drugs. For men the risk factors are injecting or snorting cocaine, being Black, being older, acquiring illegal income excluding prostitution, and ...
The trading of sex for money or drugs is the most consistent predictorfrom the individual domain, significantly decreasing the odds of symptom reductionand use cessation in partial and full models. Depressive symptoms also appearto be an important individual factor in both remission outcomes, as does...
The largest proportion of respondents was engaged in trading (28.4%), 21.0% were unemployed and 15.8% were artisans. Nearly equal proportions of the respondents were married (41.4%) and single (41.8%). Most respondents had completed basic education (59.6%), whereas 13.5% reported that they ...
However, although the intervention did not stop drug use at 3 months or trading behaviors that are also associated with how drugs are obtained, harm-reduction methods were utilized in teaching about drug use and injecting risk, and how to reduce risk. The findings are not definitive, but they...
Samples were incubated for 2 h, then protein–protein interaction between Hsp90 C-terminal domain and PPID was assayed by measuring TR-FRET using Tecan’s Spark Multimode Microplate reader (Tecan Trading AG, Switzerland). Each sample was performed in triplicate. Percentage of C-terminal domain...
market trading price: an example of a generic ACEI - Enalapril. ACEIs, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors; BNHI, Bureau of National Health Insurance; NT$, New Taiwan Dollars (at an exchange rate of NT$30.39 to US$1 on June 30, 2008); PBS, Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme. Taiwan's ...
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