Open AccessSevere food insecurity is associated with elevated unprotected sex among HIV-seropositive injection drug users independent of HAART use
Author(s) -
Kate Shan,
Thomas Kerr,
MJ Milloy,
Aranka Anema,
Ruth Zhang,
Julio S. G. Montaner,
Evan Wood
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
aids
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.195
H-Index - 216
eISSN - 1473-5571
pISSN - 0269-9370
DOI - 10.1097/qad.0b013e32834b35c9
Subject(s) - medicine , interquartile range , psychological intervention , generalized estimating equation , odds ratio , demography , cohort , confidence interval , environmental health , logistic regression , gee , cohort study , multivariate analysis , viral load , immunology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , psychiatry , statistics , mathematics , sociology
Despite emerging evidence of a significant adverse relationship between food insecurity and sexual risk-taking, data have been primarily derived from resource-constrained settings and HIV-negative populations. To our knowledge, this study is the first to longitudinally evaluate the relationship between food insecurity and unprotected sex among HIV-seropositive people who inject drugs [injection drug users (IDUs)] both on and not on HAART.