Data suggest that MPX is highly concentrated in men who have sex with men (MSM) networks and among those who had a recent sexual encounter with one or more partners. In India, the estimated MSM population was 569,346 in 2019. An analysis of the sexual partnerships among MSM suggests a ...
This research note arises out of the practical work of Anjali Gopalan and the staff of NAZ India, a sexual health project for men and women, concerned with halting the spread of the HIV virus in India, focussing particularly on the largely unresearched area of men who have sex with men....
HIV prevalence, knowledge, and attitudes and reported STI-related symptoms among the mobile Khmer population in rural Vietnam. J Rural Trop Public Health. 2010;9(1):40–7. Google Scholar He H. Social cultural factors of HIV transmission among men who have sex with men in China: a ...
Some population groups, including young children, the elderly and sick, may also spend more time indoors and close to the hearth or stove. Taken together, these considerations imply that, while exposure is important for epidemiological studies, the target for intervention emissions performance should ...
202 countries and territories with more than 99of the worlds population and Tb cases reported dataAnnex2.During the coViD-19 pandemic,WHo has also col-lected provisional monthly or quarterly national Tb case notification data on an ongoing basis from more than 100 countries with about 90of the...
male partners, with an unknown HIV-serostatus, did you have receptive anal sex with?”. The questions above were used to select the study population and were also used to formulate the variable “Anal intercourse practices” and its subcategories of *only insertive*, *only receptive* or *...
In the past century, we have quadrupled global population while relying on the burning of carbon-based fuels — coal, oil and gas — for 85 percent of the world’s energy. We are also cutting and burning forests that would otherwise help remove some of the added CO2 from the atmosphere,...
According to the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) of India, the national average HIV prevalence among MSM was 7.3% in 2009, twenty times higher than that among the general population (0.31%) [4, 5]. The Indian state of Tamil Nadu has historically been one among the six highest ...
In a concentrated epidemic, HIV spreads rapidly in one or more specific subpopulations, but its spread has been relatively modest in the general population. In these contexts the networks of at-risk populations have a key role in the epidemic dynamics. The future course of the epidemic is ...
Twenty-three studies were conducted in the USA, two in Central Europe (Poland and Slovakia), the remainder in the People’s Republic of China, Nigeria, and India, and two in Indonesia. In 10 cases, the research population consisted of DHH individuals only, in 19 cases the research ...