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| A UuskulaSummaryAffiliation: University of Tartu Country: Estonia Publications
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Factors influencing quality of life of people living with HIV in Estonia: a cross-sectional surveyKristi Rüütel
Department of Illegal Drug Use and Infectious Diseases Prevention, National Institute for Health Development, Tallinn, Estonia
J Int AIDS Soc 12:13. 2009..abstract:..- Enhanced tuberculosis case detection among substitution treatment patients: a randomized controlled trialKristi Rüütel
Department of Infectious Diseases and Drug Abuse Prevention, National Institute for Health Development, Tallinn 11619, Estonia
BMC Res Notes 4:192. 2011..abstract:.. - Informed recruitment in partner studies of HIV transmission: an ethical issue in couples researchLouise Anne McNutt
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University at Albany, State University of New York, Rensselaer, NY, USA
BMC Med Ethics 10:14. 2009..Including IDUs, either HIV-positive or at high risk for HIV, and their sexual partners would help to gain a more complete understanding of barriers to and opportunities for intervention... - High-prevalence and high-estimated incidence of HIV infection among new injecting drug users in Estonia: need for large scale prevention programsAnneli Uuskula
Department of Public Health, University of Tartu, Ravila 19, 50411 Tartu, Estonia
J Public Health (Oxf) 30:119-25. 2008..Behavioral surveys were administered; serum samples were collected for HIV testing. Subjects were categorized into new injectors (injecting < or = 3 years) and long-term injectors (injecting > 3 years)... - A study on HIV and hepatitis C virus among commercial sex workers in TallinnA Uuskula
Department of Public Health, University of Tartu, Ravila 19, Tartu 50411, Estonia
Sex Transm Infect 84:189-91. 2008..Estonia is confronted by a dramatic expansion of the initially injection drug use-driven HIV epidemic. Little is known about HIV occurrence in population groups at high risk other than injection drug users... - High prevalence of blood-borne virus infections and high-risk behaviour among injecting drug users in Tallinn, EstoniaAnneli Uuskula
Department of Public Health, University of Tartu, Estonia
Int J STD AIDS 18:41-6. 2007..These findings emphasize the importance of evidence-based secondary prevention among the HIV-infected, especially given the uncertain sustainability of antiretroviral and substance abuse treatments... - Barriers to effective STI screening in a post-Soviet society: results from a qualitative studyA Uuskula
Department of Public Health, University of Tartu, Ravila 19, Tartu 50409, Estonia
Sex Transm Infect 82:323-6. 2006..This qualitative study assesses knowledge about sexually transmitted infections (STI), identifies perceived barriers to STI testing, and recommends strategies to optimise participation in a home based STI testing programme... - Evaluating recruitment among female sex workers and injecting drug users at risk for HIV using respondent-driven sampling in EstoniaAnneli Uuskula
Department of Public Health, University of Tartu, Ravila 19, Tartu 50411, Estonia
J Urban Health 87:304-17. 2010.... - Surveillance of HIV, hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus in an estonian injection drug-using population: sensitivity and specificity of testing syringes for public health surveillanceAnneli Uuskula
Department of Public Health, University of Tartu, Estonia
J Infect Dis 193:455-7. 2006..Because sensitivity for HBV (34%) and HCV (55%) was low, syringe testing may be useful for surveillance of hepatitis over time but not for estimation of prevalence... - Trends in the epidemiology of bacterial sexually transmitted infections in eastern Europe, 1995-2005A Uuskula
Department of Public Health, University of Tartu, Ravila 19, Tartu 50411, Estonia
Sex Transm Infect 86:6-14. 2010..This article reviews trends in the epidemiology of the major bacterial STI in eastern European countries, their key determinants, as well as challenges and opportunities for enhancing STI control in the region... - Population-based type-specific prevalence of high-risk human papillomavirus infection in EstoniaAnneli Uuskula
Department of Public Health, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
BMC Infect Dis 10:63. 2010..Monitoring is needed to demonstrate protection against cervical cancer, to verify duration of protection, and assess replacement frequency of non-vaccine types among vaccinated cohorts... - Assessing non-response to a mailed health survey including self-collection of biological materialAnneli Uuskula
Department of Public Health, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Eur J Public Health 21:538-42. 2011..Collection of biological material via mailed health surveys is an emerging trend. This study was conducted to assess non-response bias in a study of sexually transmitted infection utilizing self-collected, home-obtained specimens... - Emergent properties of HIV risk among injection drug users in Tallinn, Estonia: synthesis of individual and neighbourhood-level factorsA Uuskula
Department of Public Health, University of Tartu, Ravila 19, Tartu 50411, Estonia
Sex Transm Infect 86:iii79-84. 2010..The aim of this study was to assess the effects of neighbourhood characteristics on HIV prevalence among injection drug users (IDU) residing in the area of Tallinn, Estonia in 2007... - Expanded syringe exchange programs and reduced HIV infection among new injection drug users in Tallinn, EstoniaAnneli Uuskula
Department of Public Health, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
BMC Public Health 11:517. 2011..abstract:.. - Condom use and partnership intimacy among drug injectors and their sexual partners in EstoniaAnneli Uuskula
Department of Public Health, University of Tartu, Ravila 19, Tartu 50411, Estonia
Sex Transm Infect 88:58-62. 2012..Our objective was to explore the contexts of the prevention of sexual transmission of HIV among IDUs and their sexual partners and to provide insight into beliefs and behaviours related to condom use... - The prevalence of chlamydial infection in Estonia: a population-based surveyA Uuskula
Department of Public Health, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Int J STD AIDS 19:455-8. 2008..4% (95% CI 3.0-7.5%), 6.9% (95% CI 3.6-10.3%) among women and 2.7% (95% CI 0.3-5.0%) among men. The number of sexual partners in the past 12 months was the strongest predictor of infection... - HIV epidemic in Estonia in the third decade of the AIDS eraKristi Rüütel
Department of Public Health, University of Tartu, Ravila, Tartu
Scand J Infect Dis 38:181-6. 2006.... - Sexually transmitted infections in Estonia--syndromic management of urethritis in a European country?A Uuskula
Clinic of Dermatovenereology, University of Tartu, Estonia
Int J STD AIDS 12:493-8. 2001..The use of syndromic management, in general, is also discussed... - The burden of infection with herpes simplex virus type 1 and type 2: seroprevalence study in EstoniaAnneli Uuskula
Department of Public Health, University of Tartu, Estonia
Scand J Infect Dis 36:727-32. 2004..HSV-2 prevalence in these non-high risk populations was relatively high, and may indicate a risk for an impending sexually- and STI- driven HIV epidemic... - CCL3L1 copy number is a strong genetic determinant of HIV seropositivity in Caucasian intravenous drug usersKristi Huik
Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia
J Infect Dis 201:730-9. 2010..Whether CCL3L1 influences acquisition of multiple blood-borne infections (eg, hepatitis C virus [HCV], HIV, and hepatitis B virus [HBV] infections), which occur commonly among injection drug users (IDUs), is unknown... - Treatment of sexually transmitted diseases in Estonia: consistency with the evidence-based medicine principlesAnneli Uuskula
Department of Public Health, University of Tartu, Veski st 26 3, Tartu 50409, Estonia
Sex Transm Dis 31:631-5. 2004..Early sexually transmitted disease (STD) diagnosis and appropriate treatment is essential to prevent an STD-driven HIV epidemic... - Atypical genital herpes: report of five casesAnneli Uuskula
Department of Dermatology, University of Tartu, Estonia
Scand J Infect Dis 36:37-9. 2004..The clinical presentations included mucopurulent cervicitis, haemorrhagic cystitis, recurrent urethritis, and lower back pain... - The role of injection drug use in the emergence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection in EstoniaAnneli Uuskula
Clinic of Dermatovenerology, University of Tartu, Estonia
Int J Infect Dis 6:23-7. 2002..HIV infection associated with injecting drug use has been reported worldwide. In Eastern Europe large-scale HIV epidemics have been observed from 1995 onward, after injection drug use (IDU) communities became infected... - Genital mycoplasmas, including Mycoplasma genitalium, as sexually transmitted agentsAnneli Uuskula
Clinic of Dermatovenereology, University of Tartu, Estonia
Int J STD AIDS 13:79-85. 2002..genitalium in the female genital tract. Evidence-based data are needed to decide whether current non-gonococcal infection treatment principles are applicable or not for M. genitalium infections... - Syphilis as a social disease: experience from the post-communist transition period in EstoniaAnneli Uuskula
Department of Public Health, University of Tartu, Ravila Str 19, Tartu 50411, Estonia
Int J STD AIDS 15:662-8. 2004..Our findings support the theory that syphilis is a social disease, thus emphasizing the importance of social factors in the occurrence of STDs... - Self-reported activity limitations among the population aged 20-79 in Estonia: a cross-sectional studyKatre Altmets
Department of Public Health, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Eur J Public Health 21:49-55. 2011..The present study aims to assess the prevalence of self-reported activity limitations derived from chronic conditions and social variation of limitations in the subgroups of the population aged 20-79 years in Estonia...
Research Grants
- Screening for STDs using home sampling in EstoniaAnneli Uuskula; Fiscal Year: 2007..This information will allow us to identify STD infected individuals, and to develop selective screening criteria to be used in general population studies and screening programs in Estonia. ..