HIV/AIDS
Findings from Washington University, Medical Department provide new insights into HIV/AIDS
Published in AIDS Weekly, October 5th, 2009
"Cocaine users routinely engage in high-risk sexual behaviors that place them at an elevated risk of contracting HIV and other blood-borne infections. The purpose of the present study was to compare trading sex for drugs and/or money, having 10 or more sexual partners in 1 year, and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) of cocaine-dependent individuals in treatment for their dependence across race and gender and against participants who live in their community," researchers in the United States report.
"Cocaine-dependent individuals (n = 459) were identified through nine publicly and privately funded inpatient and outpatient chemical dependency treatment centers in the...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2009-10-05)
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