Browsing by Author "Vilas-Boas Hacker, Mariana de Andrea"
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Reconstructing the AIDS epidemic among injection drug users in Brazil
Vilas-Boas Hacker, Mariana de Andrea et al. | Date Issued: 2006A epidemia de HIV/AIDS entre usuários de drogas injetáveis (UDIs) apresenta, no Brasil, contrastes temporais e geográficos. Esta análise explora tais complexidades, com o emprego de modelagem multinível. As taxas padronizadas ... -
Sinais e sintomas associados às doenças sexualmente transmissíveis no Brasil, 2005
Bastos, Francisco Inácio Pinkusfeld Monteiro et al. | Date Issued: 2008OBJETIVO: As doenças sexualmente transmissíveis (DST) constituem um dos principais determinantes da carga de doença das populações em todo o mundo. O objetivo do estudo foi avaliar a morbidade auto-referida associada à ... -
"The first shot": the context of first injection of illicit drugs, ongoing injecting practices, and hepatitis C infection in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Oliveira, Maria de Lourdes Aguiar et al. | Date Issued: 2006O trabalho investiga o contexto da primeira injeção de drogas e sua associação com práticas atuais de injeção e infecção pelo HCV (vírus da hepatite C). Usuários de drogas injetáveis (UDI) (N = 606) foram recrutados ... -
The first ten years: achievements and challenges of the Brazilian program of universal access to HIV/AIDS comprehensive management and care, 1996-2006
Vilas-Boas Hacker, Mariana de Andrea et al. | Date Issued: 2007Procedeu-se a uma revisão abrangente de artigos publicados entre 1996-2006, período posterior à introdução da terapia anti-retroviral de alta potência (HAART) no Brasil. Foram revisados artigos disponíveis nas bases ... -
The role of ‘‘long-term’’ and ‘‘new’’ injectors in a declining HIV/AIDS epidemic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Vilas-Boas Hacker, Mariana de Andrea et al. | Date Issued: 2005Background. A substantial decline of HIV prevalence has been observed in injection drug users (IDUs) from Rio de Janeiro, in recent years. Differential characteristics and behaviors of new (injecting for <6 years) and ... -
Trends in drug resistance mutations in antiretroviral-naïve intravenous drug users of Rio de Janeiro
Teixeira, Sylvia Lopes Maia et al. | Date Issued: 2006DNA sequencing of a pol gene fragment from drug-naive injecting drug users samples obtained at two time points of the Brazilian AIDS epidemic(Pre-HAARTera: 1994 to early 1997, n = 27; post-HAARTera: 1999-2001, n = 38) was ... -
Trends in HCV prevalence, risk factors and distribution of viral genotypes in injecting drug users: findings from two cross-sectional studies
Oliveira, Maria de Lourdes Aguiar et al. | Date Issued: 2009 -
A window of opportunity: declining rates of hepatitis B virus infection among injection drug users in Rio de Janeiro, and prospects for targeted hepatitis B vaccination
Oliveira, Sabrina Alberti Nóbrega de et al. | Date Issued: 2005OBJECTIVES: To measure hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection rates among injection drug users in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and to report their knowledge of and attitudes toward hepatitis and HBV vaccination. METHODS: 609 ...