African-Americans comprise 12% of the US population, but, as of 2016, accounted for 44% of the estimated 40,000 new HIV diagnoses. 58% of the African-Americans diagnosed with HIV were black MSM. Statistics such as these, drawn from the 2016 CDC HIV Surveillance Report, are the basis of a recent ‘Decade Call to Action’ (Laurencin & […]
Category: Social Inequality
‘Scoping’ location: the role of ‘place’/’space’ as an influence on HIV outcomes amongst young MSM
Bauermeister & Stephenson (B&S) is a scoping review addressing the impact of location – ‘space’ and ‘place’ – on HIV prevention and care outcomes for young MSM (YMSM). It owes much to Diaz & Ayala and their concern to view human behaviour in terms of ‘social location’ ‘within a context of social oppressive factors’ rather […]
Shared needles for Viagra injection fuel STIs among the Korean elderly
UK BBC radio’s 4’s Korean correspondent, Lucy Williamson refers in last Tuesday’s Crossing Continents to a category of STI transmission through IVDU, which is unlikely to be familiar to our readers. A recent article in the Korea Times gives further details. The individuals at risk are the 16% of South Korean seniors (65+) in Seoul […]
HIV impact of ObamaCare reduced by US Supreme Court decision
What impact will the roll-out of the US Affordable Care Act (ACA) – ObamaCare – have on health insurance coverage of people with HIV? A recently published “issue brief” on behalf of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers a first estimate (Kates & Garfield (K&G)). The ACA includes a provision to […]
How does neighbourhood impact on STI (Chlamydia) risk?
The influence of neighbourhood on STI (and more particularly Chlamydia) acquisition is widely recognized fact. Biello & Nikkolai argue for UK urban populations that neighbourhood socio-economic status (SES) is more closely correlated with Chlamydia risk than individual SES (http://sti.bmj.com/content/87/7/560.abstract?sid=88b6a7a5-11c9-472d-bd9a-39664d4142b7). In another UK study (Birmingham), Shahmanesh & Ross find residence in neighbourhoods having certain SES characteristics […]