Authors
Plavinsky S. L.
St. Petersburg Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education
Barinova A. N.
St. Petersburg Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education
Eroshina K. M.
Open Health Institute, Moscow
Bobrik A. V.
Open Health Institute, Moscow
Novozhilov A. V.
Federal Research Institute for Health Organization and Informatics
Abstract
The article presents results of the survey of 5502 persons of high HIV risk (injecting drug users and commercial sex workers) undertaken in 2006-2008 in 10 regions of Russian Federation, participating in the GLOBUS project. It was shown that sexually transmitted diseases (STD) are risk factor for HIV infection, increasing risk 1.5-2.0 times with multiplicative risk, and analyzed risk groups could be viewed as hubs of sexual networks through which STD pathogens spread, which manifests in significant number of cases being infected with several pathogens.
Key words
STD, HIV infection, GLOBUS project, risk group, pathogen
