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Heavy Drinking by Occupation in Spain: Differences Between Weekdays and the Weekend
Estimating occupational disparity in heavy drinking jointly for weekdays and the weekend may be misleading for prevention purposes, because reasons for disparity in both periods may differ. The main objective ...
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Gaps in HIV and Hepatitis C Testing Among 3486 HIV-Negative Men Who have Sex with Men in Spain in the Era of Highly Effective Antiviral Therapies
High uptake of HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) testing in Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) is needed to interrupt transmission. The objective was to identify subgroups with increased probab...
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Drug Use Prevalence and Age of First Use in Sexual Minority Men Compared to General Population Men in Spain
The aim of this study was to compare the prevalence of use of ten drugs or groups of drugs and the mean age of onset of drug use among sexual minority men (SMM) and general population men (GPM) in Spain. Parti...
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Open AccessRural–urban disparities in the reduction of avoidable mortality and mortality from all other causes of death in Spain, 2003–2019
This study aims to evaluate the trend of avoidable mortality and of mortality from all other causes of death in urban and rural areas in Spain, throughout the first 2 decades of the twenty-first century.
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Open AccessSexualized drug injection among men who have sex with men in Madrid and Barcelona as the first episode of drug injecting
We estimate the prevalence of drug injection, the variables associated with having ever injected and the proportion of ever injectors whose first drug injection was for having sex; we describe the first drug i...
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Association of Sexualized Drug Use Patterns with HIV/STI Transmission Risk in an Internet Sample of Men Who Have Sex with Men from Seven European Countries
We estimated the prevalence of overall sexualized drug use (SDU) and of chemsex in particular, assessed patterns of drug use, and identified subpopulations of men who have sex with men (MSM) where SDU and chem...
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Open AccessHigh risk men who have sex with men in Spain are reporting low intentions of actively seeking HIV testing: results from a cross-sectional study
We analyse unprotected anal intercourses (UAI) self-reported by a sample of men who have sex with men (MSM), by their future testing intentions and past testing history to identify undertested subpopulations t...
