Risk Factors Associated With HIV Infection Among Young Gay and Bisexual Men in Canada

Abstract

Our data indicate that HIV-positive gay and bisexual men are more likely to be living in unstable conditions and to report more risky sexual and substance use behaviors than HIV-negative men.

HIV Incidence and Prevalence Among Aboriginal Peoples in Canada

“…3b). Two studies among MSM in BC and QC found HIV prevalence ranged from 3.5 to 6.4% for Aboriginal men compared with 1.4 to 3.5% for non-Aboriginal MSM [42,55]. However, a recent abstract by Liu et al reports a much higher HIV prevalence of 32.3% among Aboriginal men in ON, although rates reported for almost all ethnic/ racial groups in this study were high, with Aboriginal men the second highest group.…”

“…The remaining included: three from ON [48][49][50]; two from AB [51,52]; one from MB [53]; one from SK [54]; one that used data collected from BC and QC [55]; one that used data collected from both QC and the NT [56]; one on BC and AB [57]; one from across Canada [58], and one with combined data from BC, AB, MB, ON, QC, NT, NS and NF [59]. The years studied ranged from 1980 to 2008 [46,58], with the majority using data since 1996.…”

“…Eight studies (17%) were included that published information about the Cedar Project Partnership (an observational cohort of Aboriginal youth residing in Vancouver, Prince George, or Kamloops, BC) [28]. Of the remaining studies, three examined mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) [43,44,58], three focused on prison inmates [38,39,48], three on MSM populations [42,49,55], two on detoxification/assessment unit patients [40,41], and nine studies used assorted sample groups [45-47, 50-52, 56, 57, 59]. Total sample size was reported in all but one article and ranged from 116 to 117,317 people [43,46].…”

“…Twenty-five of these studies (74%) reported data from BC [14-17, 22, 24-26, 28, 30-33, 35, 36, 38-47], three from ON [48][49][50], two from AB [51,52], one from BC and AB [57], one from SK [54], one from MB [53], one from QC and NT [56], one from QC and BC [55], and one from BC, AB, MB, ON, QC, NT, NS and NF [59]. Data for the studies were gathered from 1980 to 2008.…”

Profile of male Brazilian injecting drug users who have sex with men

“…Along with these findings, several countries have witnessed a resurgence in the incidence of HIV infection and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among men who have sex with men (MSM) 4,5,6,7 , especially among young gay men 5,8 .…”