HSCI 431 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Relative Risk Reduction, Drug Resistance, Risk Compensation
9 Aug 2018
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Lin et al 2016 (awareness and use of nonoccupational post-exposure prophylaxis among men who have sex with men in vancouver, canada) Respondent-driven sampling to complete computer-assisted self-interview, factors associated with npep awareness. Only about 50 of hiv+/- had heard about npep, 3% who engaged in high risk sex used npep. Factors for greater awareness: recent alcohol use, higher communal sexual altruism, prev sti diagnosis, greater perceived condom self-efficacy: white race, gay sexual identity, more formal education, lower personal sexual altruism, Among hiv+, greater associated with greater perceived agency to ask status and more frequently reporting doing so, higher number of lifetime receptive partners and greater access to condoms. Supports the need to expand access to and actively promote npep services. Lecture 9: hiv prevention (kate salters: basics of disease prevention, hiv prevention strategies, role of education and addressing stigma. Pre-disease: primary prevention: health promotion and specific protection. Latent disease: secondary prevention: pre-symptomatic diagnosis and treatment.
