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Targeting the SAVA (Substance Abuse, Violence, and AIDS) Syndemic Among Women and Girls

Overview of attention for article published in JAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, June 2015
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Title
Targeting the SAVA (Substance Abuse, Violence, and AIDS) Syndemic Among Women and Girls
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JAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, June 2015
DOI 10.1097/qai.0000000000000626
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Louisa Gilbert, Anita Raj, Denise Hien, Jamila Stockman, Assel Terlikbayeva, Gail Wyatt

Abstract

Multiple pathways link gender-based violence (GBV) to HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among women and girls who use or inject drugs. The aim of this article is to synthesize global literature that examines associations among the synergistic epidemics of substance abuse, violence, and HIV/AIDS, known as the SAVA syndemic. It also aims to identify a continuum of multilevel integrated interventions that target key SAVA syndemic mechanisms. We conducted a selective search strategy, prioritizing use of meta-analytic epidemiological and intervention studies that address different aspects of the SAVA syndemic among women and girls who use drugs worldwide from 2000 to 2015 using PubMed, MEDLINE, and Google Scholar. Robust evidence from different countries suggests that GBV significantly increases the risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among women and girls who use drugs. Multiple structural, biological, and behavioral mechanisms link GBV and HIV among women and girls. Emerging research has identified a continuum of brief and extended multilevel GBV prevention and treatment interventions that may be integrated into a continuum of HIV prevention, testing, and treatment interventions to target key SAVA syndemic mechanisms among women and girls who use drugs. There remain significant methodological and geographical gaps in epidemiological and intervention research on the SAVA syndemic, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. This global review underscores the need to advance a continuum of multilevel integrated interventions that target salient mechanisms of the SAVA syndemic, especially for adolescent girls, young women, and transgender women who use drugs.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 244 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 46 19%
Student > Master 38 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 11%
Student > Bachelor 25 10%
Other 12 5%
Other 42 17%
Unknown 56 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 47 19%
Social Sciences 42 17%
Psychology 35 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 17 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 2%
Other 27 11%
Unknown 71 29%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 October 2016.
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#2,892,354
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#386
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#36,047
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Outputs of similar age from JAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
#8
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