HIV among Peacekeepers and its Likely Impact on Prevalence on Host Countries' HIV Epidemics

Lowicki-Zucca, Massimo; Karmin, Sarah; Dehne, Karl L.

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“…HIV/AIDS: Three studies pointed out that major efforts to prevent HIV among peacekeepers through HIV policies, which prevented HIV-positive persons from recruitment, enlistment, and deployment but implementation procedures of the policies differ greatly across different militaries [ 65 , 68 , 69 ]. One study investigated 3 cases of HIV/AIDS among Chinese peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [ 64 ].…”

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“…Totally 22 articles reported on disease prevention measures as health protection of UN peacekeepers in multiple troop-contributing and host countries [ 64 – 68 , 70 , 73 , 74 , 76 , 78 – 80 , 84 , 88 , 92 , 101 , 107 , 114 , 132 – 135 ].…”

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“…Eight studies mentioned the enforcement of preventive medicine such as chemoprophylaxis and antiallergic drugs, immunization, disinfection, screening [ 67 , 74 , 76 , 78 , 84 , 88 , 92 , 101 ]. Nine studies emphasized the health education on disease prevention as health protection of UN peacekeepers, such as HIV/AIDS knowledge, malaria chemoprophylaxis and medical examinations [ 64 , 66 , 68 , 73 , 79 , 80 , 107 , 114 , 134 ]. Six studies pointed out the improvement of disease prevention system and policy, including early notification and isolation of cases, diagnosis and management of infectious diseases, malaria protection policy, improved detection systems for mental health problems and individual interventions [ 65 , 70 , 107 , 132 , 133 , 135 ].…”

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“…Levels of psychiatric morbidity Multination Somalia Questionnaire Over one third of participants met criteria for psychiatric caseness. Infectious diseases HIV/AIDS Hu et al 2005 [ 64 ], Ross et al 2006 [ 65 ], Guo et al 2006 [ 66 ], Jin et al 2008 [ 67 ], Lowicki-Zucca et al 2009 [ 68 ], Assan et al 2021 [ 69 ] Western Pacific Region: China The Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Sudan Medical report, Questionnaire Reported AIDS cases among Chinese peacekeepers. Region of the Americas: U.S. sub-Saharan Africa Content analyses The exposure, vulnerability, and impact of HIV on peacekeepers.…”

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UN peacekeeper health and risk factors --- a systematic scoping review

Yuan,

Chen,

Liu

et al. 2024

glob health res policy

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Background Conflicts, natural disasters, and complex emergencies present substantial health challenges to United Nations (UN) peacekeepers deployed in mission areas. This scoping review aims at summarizing previous research on the health of UN peacekeepers and identifies issues for further investigation. Methods Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) extension for Scoping Reviews, we systematically searched Web of Science, PubMed, EMBASE, Scopus and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) for English and Chinese literature published from April 1997 to November 2023. A data charting form was developed by two reviewers to extract relevant themes and provided narrative descriptions. Results We screened 1079 de-duplicated records and included 143 studies in this scoping review. There were 112 studies on the health status of UN peacekeepers, with more than half on mental health problems such as stress and anxiety. Many studies explored the health status of UN peacekeepers in African countries deployed from mainly U.S., Canada, U.K., China, Australia and Norway. There were 39 studies on the health risk factors of UN peacekeepers, including natural environmental, social environmental, psychological, behavioral lifestyle, biological factors and health service factors. There were 62 articles on the health protection of UN peacekeepers, mainly based on previous deployment experience, with a lack of theoretical guidance from global health perspectives. This scoping review found that health problems of UN peacekeepers are complicated, and whose impacts are cross-border. Social environmental factors were explored the most among health risk factors. Disease prevention measures, medical and health measures, and psychosocial measures were the main health protection for UN peacekeepers. Conclusions This scoping review highlighted that health problems of UN peacekeepers were typical global health issues with complicated and cross-border health risk factors. Therefore, comprehensive strategies could be taken from global health perspectives, including multi-phases (before-deployment, during-deployment, and post-deployment), multi-disciplines (public health, medicine, politics, health diplomacy, and others), and multi-levels (the UN, host countries, troop-contributing countries, the UN peacekeeping team, and UN peacekeepers).

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“…Consequently, the percentage of international uniformed personnel reported to be living with HIV varied between missions and was in the range of 1.0% to 2.4%. Available data from selected countries indicate that the HIV prevalence varied from a low of 0.6% among recruits in Vietnam to 10.1% for recruits in Equatorial Guinea (Whiteside et al, 2006;Bing et al, 2008;Lowicki-Zucca et al, 2009;UNAIDS Global Report, 2010). This chapter comes at a time when the global AIDS response is at a crossroads.…”

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Knowledge, Attitude, Behavior, and Practice of the UNIFIL Peacekeepers on Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Jurjus¹,

Hussein²,

Gerges³

2012

Sexually Transmitted Infections

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HIV Seroprevalence, Associated Risk Behavior, and Alcohol Use Among Male Rwanda Defense Forces Military Personnel

Harbertson¹,

Grillo²,

Zimulinda³

et al. 2012

AIDS Behav

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A cross-sectional study was conducted among active-duty male soldiers, aged ≥21 years, in the Rwanda Defense Forces (RDF) and included an anonymous behavioral survey and HIV rapid testing to determine risk factors associated with HIV seroprevalence. Overall prevalence was 2.6 % (95 % CI: 1.84-3.66); personnel who were divorced, separated or widowed, served ≥6 years, never deployed, uncircumcised, reported STI symptoms, had ≥6 lifetime sex partners, or screened positive for harmful alcohol use (via Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test) had higher HIV prevalence. Ever being divorced, separated or widowed (OR = 29.8; 95 % CI: 5.5-159.9), and STI symptoms (OR = 3.4; 95 % CI: 1.5-7.6) were significantly associated with infection, after multivariable adjustment, while circumcision was protective (OR = 0.4; 95 % CI: 0.2-0.9). Despite mobility and other factors that uniquely influence HIV transmission in militaries, RDF prevalence was similar to the general population. A reason for this finding may be conservative sexual behavior combined with effective leadership-supported prevention programs. Data suggest a concentrated rather than generalized epidemic, with targets identified for intervention.

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HIV among Peacekeepers and its Likely Impact on Prevalence on Host Countries' HIV Epidemics

Cited by 5 publications

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UN peacekeeper health and risk factors --- a systematic scoping review

UN peacekeeper health and risk factors --- a systematic scoping review

Knowledge, Attitude, Behavior, and Practice of the UNIFIL Peacekeepers on Human Immunodeficiency Virus

HIV Seroprevalence, Associated Risk Behavior, and Alcohol Use Among Male Rwanda Defense Forces Military Personnel

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