Sex, Drugs and Viral Load: Integrating HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment |
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| Air date: | Thursday, January 22, 2009, 3:00:00 PM |
| Category: | BSSR Lecture Series |
| Runtime: | 60 minutes |
| NLM Title: | Sex, drugs, and viral load : integrating HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment [electronic resource] / Seth Kalichman. |
| Series: | BSSR lecture series |
| Author: | Kalichman, Seth C. National Institutes of Health (U.S.) |
| Publisher: | [Bethesda, Md. : National Institutes of Health, 2009] |
| Other Title(s): | BSSR lecture series |
| Abstract: | (CIT): Effective treatments for HIV infection demand high levels of adherence; people infected with HIV are expected to adhere to safer sex and drug use practices throughout their lives. Treatment non-adherence overlaps with continued unsafe sexual practices for some people living with HIV/AIDS. The co-occurrence of non-adherence and HIV transmission risk behavior poses particular risk for the spread of drug resistant variants of HIV. There are common correlates of both non-adherence and risk behavior, particularly substance use and depression. In addition, successful HIV treatment may reduce perceptions of HIV infectiousness, leading to increased risk behaviors and paradoxically greater infectiousness when patients are co-infected with other sexually transmitted infections. Interventions designed to address treatment non-adherence and those designed to reduce risk behavior also share common elements, particularly self-efficacy enhancement and behavioral skills training. The common correlates and shared intervention elements suggest that integrated intervention approaches that simultaneously address HIV treatment adherence and risk reduction may be feasible. |
| Subjects: | HIV Infections--transmission Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Medication Adherence Sexually Transmitted Diseases Unsafe Sex Viral Load |
| Publication Types: | Government Publications Lectures |
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| NLM Classification: | WC 503.3 |
| NLM ID: | 101496168 |
| CIT File ID: | 14870 |
| CIT Live ID: | 7390 |
| Permanent link: | http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?14870 |