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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
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).