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Knowledge and attitudes on HIV/AIDS and HIV testing among basic school students in Tamale Metropolis, Ghana
Journal of Public Health. 2019. P. 1–9.
Kwarteng A. B., Skokova Y., Agyemang-Duah W.
Keywords: HIV/AIDS
Carter A., Zhang M., Tram K. H. et al., The Lancet HIV 2024 Vol. 11 No. 12 P. e807–e822
Background
As set out in Sustainable Development Goal 3.3, the target date for ending the HIV epidemic as a public health threat is 2030. Therefore, there is a crucial need to evaluate current epidemiological trends and monitor global progress towards HIV incidence and mortality reduction goals. In this analysis, we assess the current burden of HIV ...
Added: August 10, 2025
Andreev A. N., В кн.: XXIII Уральские социологические чтения. Личность, культура, общество: наследие Л. Н. Когана и современность: материалы Всероссийской научно-практической конференции (Екатеринбург, 17–18 марта 2023 г.).: Екатеринбург: Издательство Уральского университета, 2023..
The article describes an interview analysis with one of the first people who was diagnosed with HIV infection in the Soviet Union. Based on the vocabularies of motive by C.W. Mills are proposed to distinguish between two types of social encounters’ accounts: justifications and excuses. The way of avoiding accounts of social encounters is specified. ...
Added: November 23, 2023
Kashnitsky D., Richter J. M., Global Public Health 2021 P. 1–20
Migrants experience several challenges en route to or in their host country. Current legislation in Russia imposes a permanent ban on international migrants with HIV obtaining a residence permit in Russia. Using qualitative methodology, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 15 international migrants who have lived with HIV in Russia and 12 interviews with healthcare providers ...
Added: December 6, 2021
Kluczewska K., Korneev O., Europe-Asia Studies 2022 Vol. 74 No. 2 P. 194–218
Building on previous work on the securitisation of HIV/AIDS, studies of framings, and the Copenhagen and Paris schools of security studies, this essay explores how policy framings of HIV/AIDS have shifted from the late Soviet period through to present-day Tajikistan. Pointing to both continuity and change, it shows how, under the influence of international actors ...
Added: February 5, 2021
Kluczewska K., Korneev O., Global Social Policy 2021 Vol. 21 No. 1 P. 75–95
This article analyses how global governance frameworks and knowledge claims are
translated to fit local contexts. It specifically looks at harm reduction initiatives targeting
injection drug users utilising the case of Tajikistan. In the 1990s, this post–Soviet
Central Asian country became exposed to an inflow of cheap and easily available heroin
from Afghanistan. While Tajikistan mainly became a transit ...
Added: October 17, 2020
Yasaveev I., Medicine (United States) 2020 Vol. 99 No. 21 Article e18945
The article deals with the ways Russian authorities have constructed the social problem of HIV/AIDS (human immunodeficiency virus/ acquired immune deficiency syndrome) in Russia. The statistical construction of HIV/AIDS includes data indicating the significant rise of HIV prevalence in Russia since 2000. The study focuses on what and how Russian authorities speak about HIV/AIDS, while ...
Added: May 22, 2020
Romero-Severson E., Bulla I., Serea O. S. et al., Mathematical Medicine and Biology 2018 Vol. 35 No. 4 P. 469–491
This article is about numerical control of HIV propagation. The contribution of the article is threefold: first, a novel model of HIV propagation is proposed; second, the methods from numerical optimal control are successfully applied to the developed model to compute optimal control profiles; finally, the computed results are applied to the real problem yielding ...
Added: October 8, 2019
Yasaveev I., Социологическое обозрение 2019 Т. 18 № 3 С. 49–76
The article deals with the constructions of the social problem of HIV/AIDS created by both the authorities and HIV activists in Russia. The work is based on the study of the rhetoric of Russian authorities, participant observations, and interviews with HIV activists. The constructions of HIV/ AIDS that were formed by authorities and HIV activists ...
Added: October 2, 2019
Meylakhs P., Friedman S., Meylakhs A. et al., AIDS and Behavior 2019 Vol. 23 No. 12 P. 3350–3365
Russia has a widespread injection drug use epidemic with high prevalence of HIV and HCV among people who inject drugs (PWID). We conducted a mixed methods study of young (age 18-26) hard drug users in St. Petersburg. Thirty-nine structured and 10 semi-structured interviews were conducted. No HIV cases and two HCV cases were detected among ...
Added: June 13, 2019
Banshchikova A., Азия и Африка сегодня 2019 № 3 С. 45–50
The paper deals with social advertisement on HIV/AIDS, Ebola, and malaria in African cities. Each of these diseases is treated differently by the authors of advertisements in terms of key messages to citizens, ways of representation and emotional component. Billboards dedicated to Ebola and malaria are logical, consistent and easily understandable: they give a very ...
Added: March 28, 2019
Network Structure of an AIDS-denialist Online Community: Identifying Core Members and the Risk Group
Rykov Y., Meylakhs P., Sinyavskaya Y., American Behavioral Scientist 2017 Vol. 61 No. 7 P. 688–706
With rapid growth of online social network sites, the issue of health-related online communities and its social and behavioral implications has become increasingly important for public health. Unfortunately, online communities often become vehicles for promotion of pernicious misinformation, in particular, that HIV virus is a myth (AIDS denialism). This study seeks to explore online users’ ...
Added: April 18, 2017
Suvorova A., Belyakov A., Makhamatova A. et al., AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV 2015 Vol. 27 No. 10 P. 1309–1316
Prior to 2010, medical care for people living with HIV/AIDS was provided at an outpatient facility near the center of St. Petersburg. Since then, HIV specialty clinics have been established in more outlying regions of the city. The study examined the effect of this decentralization of HIV care on patients' satisfaction with care in clinics ...
Added: March 9, 2017
Network Structure of an AIDS-denialist Online Community: Identifying Core Members and the Risk Group
Rykov Y., Meylakhs P., Sinyavskaya Y., / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series SOC "Sociology". 2016. No. 71.
Background: With the rapid growth of online social network sites (SNS), the issue of health-related online communities and its social and behavioral implications have become increasingly important for public health and healthcare. Unfortunately, online communities often become vehicles for promotion of pernicious misinformation, for example, alleged harm of vaccination or that HIV-virus is a myth ...
Added: October 11, 2016
Rykov Y., Koltsova O., Meylakhs P., Социологические исследования 2016 № 8 С. 30–42
With the rapid growth of online social network sites (SNS), the issue of health-related online communities and its social and behavioral outcomes has become increasingly popular in Internet studies and sociology of health and medicine. This paper presents the results of the empirical study investigating the structure of the 'friendship' networks and participants' communicative activity ...
Added: April 11, 2016
Shilovskaya M. M., HIV & AIDS Review 2015 No. 14 P. 9–14
The article focuses on the rights of HIV positive people in the Russian Federation. Taking into consideration the multilayered definition of disability, the author tries to examine various challenges people living with HIV/AIDS face like stigma within families, social and religious communities, in the workplace and in the health sector. This paper also presents the ...
Added: February 23, 2015
Sakevich V. I., Демоскоп Weekly 2015 № 627-628
Три десятилетия назад в Европе была создана система эпидемиологического надзора за ВИЧ, и с тех пор ВИЧ-инфекция остается важной проблемой здоровья населения и систем здравоохранения в регионе. Согласно новейшим данным, представленным Европейским центром профилактики и контроля заболеваний и Европейским региональным бюро ВОЗ, ВИЧ-инфекция продолжает распространяться, несмотря на прогресс в области лечения и появившиеся новые возможности ...
Added: February 17, 2015
Pape U., Routledge, 2014.
This book studies the role of civil society organisations in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Russia. The book investigates civil society organizations’ contribution to social change and civil society development in post-Soviet Russia, and thus situates a specific type of civil society actors into a broader socio-political context and questions their ability to represent civic ...
Added: January 29, 2015
Alekseeva E., Krasnopolskaya I., Skokova Y., Health Education 2015 Vol. 115 No. 1 P. 7–37
Purpose: This is the first empirical study of the effectiveness of the international volunteer program “dance4life” in Russia. The program addresses taboos, stigma, discrimination, HIV/AIDS prevention, promoting Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), healthy lifestyle among adolescents/youth. The program uses the “edutainment” model that allows involving youth more meaningfully through music, dance and youth icons. ...
Added: October 1, 2014