Male Sex Work and HIV Risk among Young Heroin Users in Hanoi, Vietnam. Clatts MC, Giang LM, Goldsamt LA, et al (2009)
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In 2005, the latest year for which complete data are available, there were an estimated 8.3 million HIV infections in Asia, one-fifth the disease burden worldwide. Download this publication |
HIV/AIDS Interventions: Behavior Change Communication (BCC) Campaigns. FHI, USAID, and Impact (2003)
| As of September 30, 2002, more than 55,200 people in Viet Nam are reported to be HIV positive; the actual number is likely to be three to four times higher. Download this publication |
Cultures and Contexts Matter: Understanding and Preventing HIV in the Pacific. ADB (2007)
| By the mid-1980s, a few of the 22 Pacific Island countries and ter- ritories (PICT) from the three subregions of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia began reporting HIV infections through passive surveillance. The first HIV infections were reported in the Republic of the Marshall Islands in 1984, followed by French Polynesia and Guam in 1985, New Caledonia in 1986, and Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Tonga in 1987. Download this publication |
Prevalence and Risk Factors of HIV Infection among Clients Attending ICTCs in Six Districts of Tamilnadu, South India. Ramachandran R, Chandrasekaran V, Muniyandi M, et al (2011)
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To assess the HIV serostatus of clients attending integrated counseling and testing centres (ICTCs) in Tamilnadu, south India (excluding antenatal women and children), and to study its association with demographic, socioeconomic, and behavioral risk factors. Design. In a prospective observational study, we interviewed clients attending 170 ICTCs from six districts of Tamilnadu during 2007 utilizing a standard pretest assessment questionnaire. Download this publication |
UNAIDS Expert Consultation on Behavior Change in the Prevention of Sexual Transmission of HIV: Highlights and Recommendations. UNAIDS (2007)
| On 25–26 September 2006, 26 experts from 17 countries, joined by UNAIDS Secretariat and Cosponsor staff, met for an expert consultation to reconsider the state of knowledge on behaviour change measures for the prevention of sexual transmission of HIV. Download this publication |
Male Homosexual Identities, Relationships, and Practices among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men in Vietnam: Implications for HIV Prevention. Ngo DA, Ross MW, Phan H, et al (2010)
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Rapid socioeconomic transformation in Vietnam in last 15 years has been followed by more liberation of sexual expression and representation of sexual identity among young people. There has been an increase in the visibility of homosexual men in major cities of Vietnam who were largely an unknown population until the emergence of the HIV epidemic. Download this publication |
Differences in the Social Networks of Ethnic Vietnamese and Non-Vietnamese Injecting Drug Users and Their Implications for Blood-borne Virus Transmission. Aitken CK, Higgs P and Bowden S (2007)
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The social networks of 49 ethnic Vietnamese injecting drug users (IDUs) and 150 IDUs of other ethnicities recruited in Melbourne, Australia, were examined for ethnic differences in distribution of hepatitis C virus infection risk using social network analysis and molecular epidemiology. Vietnamese IDUs were more highly connected than non-Vietnamese IDUs, and more likely to be members of dense injecting sub-networks. Download this publication |
