Document 1911
 DOCN  M94A1911
 TI    HIV dissemination in a cocaine (socially degraded) scenario in Brazil.
 DT    9412
 AU    Mesquita F; Bueno R; Bastos F; Telles P; Fac. Medicine, University of
       Sao Paulo, Brazil.
 SO    Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):423 (abstract no. PD0299). Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94370664
 AB    The social economic changes in Brazil in the last decade turned this
       period of time as a lost decade. A very high inflation and growing
       recession made many people lose their position in the formal employment
       market moving into informal occupations, including the dealing of small
       amounts of illicit drugs. The war on drugs official politics for drug
       control in U.S. changed the route of trafficking of cocaine from the
       producing countries (as Colombia, Bolivia and Peru) through the harbors
       in Brazil. This two main factors are responsible for an expanded market
       of cocaine in Brazil and the fast spreading of HIV. Brazil today has a
       real multy layered drug problem that join the worst of the developed
       world, as a strong cocaine distribution Mafia, with other typically from
       the developing world, such as psycothropic drugs diverted from the legal
       market, and glue sniffing by a growing population of street kids. The
       global crisis of AIDS has spoused, among other inequalities something
       unknown before--a significant amount of drug injectors. That made the
       picture change from 3% of total AIDS cases among IDUs in 1980-86, to 25%
       of the new cases in 1992. Field surveys in Santos (Sao Paulo State) and
       Rio de Janeiro are showing a high level of HIV seroprevalence among IDUs
       (62% and 35%, respectively). Even with a good National Project to reach
       IDUs in the country it will reveal a very conservative society trying to
       obstacle the prevention proposals.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*TRANSMISSION  Brazil/EPIDEMIOLOGY
       *Cocaine  Human  HIV Infections/*TRANSMISSION  *HIV Seroprevalence
       Socioeconomic Factors  *Substance Abuse, Intravenous  *Substance
       Dependence  Urban Population  MEETING ABSTRACT

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