7 documents found, page 1 of 1
The HepHIV 2023 Madrid conference: A call to action for political leadership in...
Simões, Daniel; Raben, Dorthe; Moran, Alejandro Bertó; Imaz, Arkaitz; Stengaard, Annemarie Rinder; Raahauge, Anne; Sullivan, Ann K.; Vaughan, Elena
Social contact patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic in 21 European countries -...
Wong, Kerry L.M.; Gimma, Amy; Coletti, Pietro; Paolotti, Daniela; Tizzani, Michele; Cattuto, Ciro; Schmidt, Andrea; Gredinger, Gerald; Stumpfl, SophieBackground: Most countries have enacted some restrictions to reduce social contacts to slow down disease transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic. For nearly two years, individuals likely also adopted new behaviours to avoid pathogen exposure based on personal circumstances. We aimed to understand the way in which different factors affect social contacts - a critical step to improving future pandemic responses...
HIV seroprevalence in five key populations in Europe: a systematic literature r...
Stengaard, Annemarie Rinder; Combs, Lauren; Supervie, Virginie; Croxford, Sara; Desai, Sarika; Sullivan, Ann K; Jakobsen, Stine Finne; Santos, Quenia
Lessons learned from the first European project on the integration of infectiou...
Raben, Dorthe; Casabona, Jordi; Cosmaro, Lella; Gasbarrini, Nadia; Lambert, John S.; Glapsy, Shannon; Kakalou, Christine; Maffeo, Manuel; Mommi, Michele
Association of Sexualized Drug Use Patterns with HIV/STI Transmission Risk in a...
Guerras, Juan-Miguel; Hoyos Miller, Juan; Agustí, Cristina; Chanos, Sophocles; Pichon, François; Kuske, Matthias; Cigan, Bojan; Fuertes, RicardoWe estimated the prevalence of overall sexualized drug use (SDU) and of chemsex in particular, assessed patterns of drug use, and identified subpopulations of men who have sex with men (MSM) where SDU and chemsex are more frequent. Using data from an online survey of 9407 MSM recruited during 2016 in 7 European countries, we calculated the proportion of participants who reported SDU and chemsex (mephedrone, met...
Imputation method to reduce undetected severe acute respiratory infection cases...
Oliveira, Silvano Barbosa de; Ganem, Fabiana; Araújo, Wildo Navegantes de; Casabona, Jordi; Sanchez, Mauro Niskier; Croda, JulioINTRODUCTION: The coronavirus disease (COVD-19) outbreak has overburdened the surveillance of severe acute respiratory infections (SARIs), including the laboratory network. This study was aimed at correcting the absence of laboratory results of reported SARI deaths. METHODS: The imputation method was applied for SARI deaths without laboratory information using clinico-epidemiological characteristics. RESULTS: O...
COBA-Cohort: a prospective cohort of HIV-negative men who have sex with men, at...
Lorente, Nicolas; Fernàndez-López, Laura; Fuertes, Ricardo; Rojas Castro, Daniela; Pichon, François; Cigan, Bojan; Chanos, Sophocles; Meireles, PaulaIntroduction Community-based voluntary counselling and testing (CBVCT) services for men who have sex with men (MSM) can reach those most-at-risk and provide an environment for gay men that is likely to be non-stigmatising. Longitudinal data on the behaviour of HIV-negative MSM are scarce in Europe. The aim of this protocol, developed during the Euro HIV Early Diagnosis And Treatment (EDAT) project, is to implem...