1. Doubts Remain, Risks Persist: HIV Prevention Knowledge and HIV Testing Among Drug Users in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Singer, Merrill, Clair, Scott, Malta, Monica, Bastos, Francisco I., Bertoni, Neilane, and Santelices, Claudia
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COCAINE abuse , *AIDS prevention , *QUALITATIVE research , *HIV infections , *HIV , *OPEN-ended questions - Abstract
Brazil has been recognized for being the first developing country to provide universal AIDS treatment. Brazil also implemented a comprehensive prevention initiative. These efforts have been successful, with about half the number of HIV/AIDS cases forecast in 1992 developing by 2000. However, HIV/AIDS continues to spread, including among not-in-treatment drug users. Questions have been raised about gaps in existing prevention efforts. Based on qualitative research in 2006--2008 with street drug users in Rio de Janeiro (focus groups, N == 24; a pile sort, N == 108; open-ended interviews, N == 34), this paper examines enduring gaps in HIV knowledge and prevailing risk patterns and proposes strategies for strengthening prevention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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