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Does Hiv Status Confer A Higher Risk Of Acquiring Covid-19? Using Clinical Decision Science To Combat Patients’ Anxiety, Camilo Guzman Oct 2021

Does Hiv Status Confer A Higher Risk Of Acquiring Covid-19? Using Clinical Decision Science To Combat Patients’ Anxiety, Camilo Guzman

Clinical Research in Practice: The Journal of Team Hippocrates

A clinical decision report using

del Amo J, Polo R, Moreno S, et al. “Incidence and Severity of COVID-19 in HIV-Positive Persons Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy.” Annals of Internal Medicine. 2020;173(7):536-541. doi.org/10.7326/m20-3689

for a patient with HIV and concerns about COVID-19 for immunocompromised individuals.


Factors That Influence Perception Of Hiv Risk And Willingness To Use Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis In People Who Inject Drugs, Daria Egorova, Anny Fenton, Kinna Thakarar Aug 2021

Factors That Influence Perception Of Hiv Risk And Willingness To Use Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis In People Who Inject Drugs, Daria Egorova, Anny Fenton, Kinna Thakarar

Journal of Maine Medical Center

Introduction: Sexual and injection behaviors increase the risk of HIV transmission in people who inject drugs (PWID). We aimed to determine the prevalence of sexual and drug behaviors that increase HIV risk in PWID hospitalized for infections related to injection drug use in Maine. We also examined factors that influenced their perception of HIV risk and willingness to take pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).

Methods: We surveyed 101 PWID with infections related to injection drug use who were hospitalized at 4 hospitals in Maine. T-tests assessed differences in means of bacterial infection risk scores and willingness to take PrEP based on different …