HIV/AIDS Risk Factors

Data on HIV/AIDS risk factors described by researchers at Johns Hopkins University

Published in AIDS Weekly, December 24th, 2007

Researchers detail in 'Residential transience and HIV risk behaviors among injection drug users,' new data in HIV/AIDS. "Housing instability has been linked to HIV risk behaviors. Many studies have focused on the implications of one's housing structure or lack thereof," investigators in the United States report.

"This study focuses on residential transience as an additional dimension of housing instability. Specifically, we assessed the associations between transience and four HIV risk behaviors. Transience was defined as moving twice or more in the past six months. Multivariate analyses of a sample of current injectors (n=807) indicated that transience had an...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2007-12-24)

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