| HIV among MSM in a large middle-income country. | |
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PMID: 23291540 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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OBJECTIVE:: To conduct the first national biological and behavioral surveillance survey for HIV among MSM in Brazil. DESIGN:: A cross-sectional surveillance study utilizing Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS) in 10 cities, following formative research. Planned sample: 350 MSM reporting sex with another man in the last 12 months, at least 18 years of age, and residing in the city of the study. METHODS:: Conventional RDS recruitment. Results were calculated for each city using RDSAT 5.6. For the national estimate, a new individual weight using a novel method was calculated. The 10 cities were aggregated, treated as strata and analyzed using STATA11.0. Self-reported HIV status and logistic regression was used to impute missing values for serostatus, an important issue for RDSAT. RESULTS:: A total of 3859 MSM were interviewed. Sample was diverse, most self-identified as mulatto or black, were social class C or below, and had relatively low levels of education. More than 80% reported more than one partner in the last 6 months. Only 49% had ever tested for HIV. HIV prevalence among MSM ranged from 5.2 to 23.7% in the 10 cities (3.7-16.5% without imputation) and was 14.2% for all cities combined with imputation. The overall prevalence was two and three times higher than that estimated for female sex workers and drug users, respectively, in Brazil. Half of those who tested HIV positive were not aware of their infection. CONCLUSION:: The AIDS epidemic in Brazil is disproportionately concentrated among MSM, as has been found in other countries. Renewed efforts to encourage testing, prevention and treatment are required. |
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Ligia R F S Kerr; Rosa S Mota; Carl Kendall; Adriana de A Pinho; Maeve B Mello; Mark D C Guimarães; Inês Dourado; Ana M de Brito; Adele Benzaken; Willi McFarland; George Rutherford; |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE |
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Title: AIDS (London, England) Volume: 27 ISSN: 1473-5571 ISO Abbreviation: AIDS Publication Date: 2013 Jan |
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Created Date: 2013-1-7 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8710219 Medline TA: AIDS Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: 427-435 Citation Subset: - |
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aDepartamento de Saúde Comunitária, Universidade Federal do Ceará bDepartamento de Estatistica e Matematica Aplicada, Universidade Federal do Ceará cTulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Center for Global Health Equity dEscola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, (FIOCRUZ) Rio de Janeiro eICIT, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro fDepartamento de Medicina Preventiva e Social, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais gInstituto de Saúde Coletiva/Universidade Federal da Bahia hCentro de Pesquisas Aggeu Magalhães, FIOCRUZ, Recife, Pernambuco iFundação Alfredo da Mata, Manaus, Brazil jInstitute of Global Health, University of California, San Francisco, USA. |
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