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Letter to the Scientific Community: Brazil in face of the new SARS-CoV-2 variants
Marquitti, Flavia Maria Darcie; Coutinho, Renato Mendes; Ferreira, Leonardo Souto; Borges, Marcelo Eduardo; Portella, Tatiana PThis letter discusses the epidemic situation of Covid-19 in Brazil, in the face of the emergence of a new strain, called P1, more transmissible and with possible associated reinfection. Given the collapse of hospital care in Manaus in January 2021 and the results of three recent preprints, all of which found increased transmissibility of the P.1 variant, we propose some urgent actions: the establishment of gen...
Conhecimento sobre HIV/aids entre HSH no Brasil: um desafio para as políticas p...
Guimarães, Mark Drew Crosland; Magno, Laio; Ceccato, Maria das Graças Braga; Gomes, Raquel Regina de Freitas Magalhães; Leal, Andrea FachelIntroduction: High level of HIV/AIDS knowledge is required for an effective adoption of preventive strategies. Objective: To assess HIV/AIDS knowledge among men who have sex with men (MSM) in 12 Brazilian cities. Methods: Respondent-Driven Sampling method was used for recruitment. HIV/AIDS knowledge was assessed by Item Response Theory. Difficulty and discrimination parameters were estimated, and the knowledge ...