Poverty, bridging between injecting drug users and the general population, and "interiorization" may explain the spread of HIV in southern Brazil

Health and Place

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 514-519

  Hacker, Mariana A ^a   Leite, Iuri ^a   Friedman, Samuel R ^b   Carrijo, Renata Gracie ^c   Bastos, Francisco I ^c  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

^c Brazil   (Brazil)

Author keywords

AIDS; Brazil; Hierarchical modeling; Injecting drug users; Poverty

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; DISEASE SPREAD; DRUG USER; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; POVERTY;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 58049111182     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2008.09.011     Document Type: Article

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