A5006547640- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Youth, Drugs, and Violence
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Public Health and Social Inequalities
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Ergonomics and Human Factors
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
- Management, Economics, and Public Policy
- Sex work and related issues
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Social Issues and Policies in Latin America
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Community Health and Development
- Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
- Quality and Safety in Healthcare
- Hepatitis C virus research
- Diverse academic and cultural studies
- HIV Research and Treatment
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Public Health and Environmental Issues
University of Buenos Aires
2011-2024
University of Brescia
2008-2022
Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná
2018
Asociación por los Derechos Civiles
1999-2016
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
2010
Eon Corporation (United States)
2006
Michigan State Police
2001
Despite advances in our knowledge of effective services for people who use drugs over the last decades globally, coverage remains poor most countries, while quality is often unknown. This paper aims to discuss historical development successful epidemiological indicators and present a framework extending them with additional harm reduction services, monitoring evaluation at international, national or subnational levels. The ultimate aim improve these order reduce health social problems among...
Big Events are periods during which abnormal large-scale events like war, economic collapse, revolts, or pandemics disrupt daily life and expectations about the future. They can lead to rapid change in health-related norms, beliefs, social networks behavioural practices. The world is undergoing such through interaction of COVID-19, a large downturn, massive unrest many countries, ever-worsening effects global climate change. Previous research, mainly on HIV/AIDS, suggests that health be...
Injection drug use is the main mechanism of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission in Argentina (40% reported AIDS cases Argentina). This study was conducted among street-recruited injection users (IDUs) from Buenos Aires, with aim estimating seroprevalence and coinfection HIV, hepatitis B (HBV), C (HCV), T-lymphotropic viruses (HTLVs). A total 174 volunteers participated this study; 137 were men (78.7% volunteers). The average age participants 30 years. Only 64 (37%) had no viral...
An HIV incidence estimation was performed among men who have sex with (MSM), drug users (DUs), workers (SWs), and pregnant women (PW) from Argentina. Volunteers older than 18 years old without a previous HIV-positive diagnosis were included. samples analyzed by the Serological Testing Algorithm for Recent Seroconversion (STARHS) to estimate incidence. By partial RT-PCR sequencing of pol gene, an subtype resistance profile determined. A total 12,192 volunteers recruited October 2006 September...
Aim To investigate the factors associated with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among non-injecting cocaine users (NICUs) and to compare practices HCV HIV infection. Design An intercountry cross-sectional study. Setting Buenos Aires Montevideo metropolitan areas. Participants A total of 871 NICUs. Measurements NICUs were interviewed their blood was drawn used for HCV, HIV, HBV surface antigen (HbsAg), HB-anticore Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VRDL) antibody assays. Bivariate...
In order to face the challenges and take advantage of opportunities brought by "Digitalised Era", support good quality information system is paramount importance for companies. The objective this paper investigate what extent current offer business software able meet set requirements that manufacturing companies have satisfy cope with digital transformation. First, a literature review carried out identify Industry 4.0 requirements. Then, product portfolio market leader, SAP SE, analysed as...
The aim of this study was to estimate the seroprevalence rates human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B (HBV, core antibody), C (HCV), and syphilis infections analyze associated risk factors among 504 non-injecting cocaine users (NICU) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Participants were interviewed face-to-face sessions through a short structured questionnaire. Using venipuncture, 10mL blood collected. Seroprevalence were: HIV (6.3%), HBV (9%), HCV (7.5%), VDRL (4.2%). being infected with...
Using the serological testing algorithm for recent HIV seroconversion, we estimated annualized incidences (per 100 person-years) of HIV-1 infection in different at-risk groups Buenos Aires and Montevideo, during a 5-year period between 1998 2003. HIV-positive serum samples from 9 serosurveys conducted among men who have sex with men, patients attending clinics sexually transmitted infections consult (STIs), female commercial workers, injecting drug users (IDUs), noninjecting cocaine (NICUs),...
In some countries, "Big Events" like crises and transitions have been followed by large increases in drug use, injection HIV/AIDS. Argentina experienced an economic crisis political transition 2001/2002 that affected how people use their time. This paper studies time changes between years 2001 2004, subsequent to these events, were associated with consumption poor neighbourhoods of Greater Buenos Aires.In 2003-2004, 68 current injecting users (IDUs) 235 young non-IDUs, aged 21-35, who lived...
Summary: The presence of recombinant intersubtypes HIV-1 in Argentina has been reported since the mid-1990s. In this study, sequences a region gag, pol, and vpu genes were analyzed samples 21 injection drug users (IDUs) residing suburbs city Buenos Aires. Genomic characterization identification recombination sites made comparing 3 regions with reference isolation subtypes B, F, C, A, B/F recombinants: CRF12_BF non-CRF12_BF sequences. Subtype assignment segments was phylogenetically...
The term "Big Events" began as a way to help understand how wars, transitions and other crises shape long-term HIV epidemiology in affected areas. It directs attention the roles of ordinary people shaping these outcomes. Big Events themselves can take years, armed struggles like those Colombia also political economic changes turn over last 15 years many Latin American countries away from neoliberalism towards attempts build solidarity economies some form. effects on epidemics, at least, may...