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Article de Périodique
Alcohol: the forgotten drug in HIV/AIDS. Comment (2010)
Auteur(s) :
FRITZ, K. ;
MOROJELE N. K. ;
KALICHMAN S. C.
Année :
2010
Page(s) :
Online 20 July, 2 p.
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
12
Domaine :
Alcool / Alcohol
Discipline :
MAL (Maladies infectieuses / Infectious diseases)
Résumé :
Alcohol has long been recognised as an important contributor to illness and injury, accounting for 4% of the global burden of disease. Yet alcohol remains conspicuously absent from the larger field of research and programming in HIV and substance use. Perhaps because of its very ubiquity, alcohol use remains an easily overlooked backdrop of HIV epidemics worldwide. Patterns of hazardous alcohol consumption prevail in countries with the most severe HIV epidemics, notably eastern and southern Africa (figure: Rehm J, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada; personal communication). In South Africa, for example, where nearly one out of five sexually active adults is HIV positive, the yearly per-capita consumption of alcohol is among the highest in the world. Strikingly, hazardous drinking patterns also dominate in the concentrated epidemics of eastern Europe and Asia, where alcohol use by injecting drug users and other marginalised groups might be an additional barrier to effective efforts to prevent HIV infection. [Extract]
Affiliation :
International Center for Research on Women, Washington, DC 20036, United States / Etats-Unis