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Substance Use, Sexual Intercourse, and Condom Nonuse Among Depressed Adolescents and Young Adults
The current study sought to "examine daily- and event-level associations of substance use with occurrence of sex and condom nonuse" among depressed, sexually active outpatients ages 15-22.
For two weeks, participants reported alcohol use, marijuana ...
Sex Parties Among Young Gay, Bisexual and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men in New York City: Attendance and Behavior
Little is known about sex party behaviors in young men who have sex with men, often defined as the 13- to 29-year-age-range. "The current analysis examines sex party attendance and behavior in a sample of 540 emergent adult gay, bisexual, and other Y...
HPTN 058 HIV Prevention Study Among Injection Drug Users to Close Early
HPTN 058, a Phase III clinical trial evaluating whether medication combined with drug and HIV risk-reduction counseling can prevent HIV infection and death among opiate-dependent injection drug users, will cease new enrollment and begin a phased clos...
Methamphetamine Use and Risk for HIV Among Young Men Who Have Sex With Men in Eight U.S. Cities
Young MSM who use methamphetamine appear to be at high risk for HIV infection, according to the authors of this cross-sectional observational analysis of data from eight U.S. cities.
The participants, MSM ages 12 to 24, were recruited from social ve...
Prevention Works! to Close at the End of This Month
Prevention Works!, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping individuals with drug addiction, has announced today that it will be closing its doors after 12 years of service. Prevention Works! is known for needle exchange in DC which has been a ...
Injection Drug Use Fuels Black HIV Rates: Why Don't We Talk About It?
Mainstream media has spent very little time reporting on how injection drug use -- the No. 2 cause of HIV transmission among black women -- affects HIV rates in the African-American community. The Black AIDS Institute explores this topic by discussin...
Under the Radar: July 21
Supplement This: New Studies Support Dietary Supplementation Among People Living With HIV/AIDS What Kind of Syringe Is Best? Nobody Puts Female Condom in the Corner
Here's a hodgepodge of underreported news coming out of IAC:
Supplement This:...
Exchange We Can Believe In
Panelists at Congressional Syringe Exchange briefing
While the science of syringe exchange is indisputable, the politics are a little trickier. At a standing-room-only Congressional briefing Wednesday, advocates tried to convince more than 50 Congre...
Summaries of Recently Published Research on HIV Risk and Drug Use Among Men Who Have Sex With Men
The Journal of Urban Health recently released an advanced access version of a special issue devoted to investigations of substance use and sexual risk behavior among men who have sex with men (MSM). Some of these papers may offer useful insights for ...
HIV Risk Higher for Young Female IDUs Who Have Sex With Women
Women injection drug users who have sex with women (WSW IDUs) comprise 20 percent to 30 percent of American women IDUs. Compared to other women IDUs, WSW IDUs have higher HIV prevalence and incidence rates and a greater likelihood of engaging in high...