How much does heterosexual commercial sex contribute to India's HIV epidemic?David Gisselquist
29 West Governor Road, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
Int J STD AIDS 17:736-42. 2006
..Overestimating the contribution of commercial sex to India's HIV epidemic misleads prevention programmes to ignore other risks, and promotes the stigmatizing assumption that HIV infection is a sign of immoral behaviour...
- Estimating HIV-1 transmission efficiency through unsafe medical injections
David P Gisselquist
Independent Consultant, 29 West Governor Road, Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033, USA
Int J STD AIDS 13:152-9. 2002
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- Four policies to reduce HIV transmission through unsterile health care
David Gisselquist
Int J STD AIDS 14:717-22. 2003
..3) Promote safe health care practices equally for clients and staff. (4) Establish a zero-tolerance policy for iatrogenic HIV infections, with publicly reported monitoring and investigations...
- Running on empty: sexual co-factors are insufficient to fuel Africa's turbocharged HIV epidemic
David Gisselquist
Hershey, PA 17033, USA
Int J STD AIDS 15:442-52. 2004
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Double standards in research ethics, health-care safety, and scientific rigour allowed Africa's HIV/AIDS epidemic disastersD Gisselquist
Int J STD AIDS 20:839-45. 2009
..Allowing competitive international trade in generic drugs to treat AIDS could mitigate some of the harm done by these double standards...
- How to contain generalized HIV epidemics? A plea for better evidence to displace speculation
D Gisselquist
Hershey, PA, USA
Int J STD AIDS 20:443-6. 2009
..This knowledge could be acquired by tracing HIV infections to their source - especially tracing HIV infections in women of all ages, and tracing unexplained HIV infections in children with HIV-negative mothers...
- Denialism undermines AIDS prevention in sub-Saharan Africa
David Gisselquist
Int J STD AIDS 19:649-55. 2008
..Denialism must be overcome to ensure safe health care and to combat HIV-related stigma in Africa...
- How much do blood exposures contribute to HIV prevalence in female sex workers in sub-Saharan Africa, Thailand and India?
David Gisselquist
Int J STD AIDS 18:581-8. 2007
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- Impact of long-term civil disorders and wars on the trajectory of HIV epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa
David Gisselquist
SAHARA J 1:114-27. 2004
..However, other explanations are also possible. The roles of sex and blood exposures in HIV epidemics in war and peace await empirical determination...
- Efficiency of human immunodeficiency virus transmission through injections and other medical procedures: evidence, estimates, and unfinished business
David Gisselquist
Independent Consultant, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 27:944-52. 2006
..To estimate the transmission efficiency of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) through medical injections and other invasive procedures...
- Does selected ecological evidence give a true picture of HIV transmission in Africa?
David Gisselquist
Hershey, PA 17033, USA
Int J STD AIDS 15:434-9. 2004
..We commend the emerging consensus to improve the safety of health care delivery. In countries with generalized HIV epidemics, we urge public education about the risks for HIV acquisition from unsterile health care...
- Review of evidence from risk factor analyses associating HIV infection in African adults with medical injections and multiple sexual partners
David Gisselquist
Int J STD AIDS 15:222-33. 2004
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- HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa not explained by sexual or vertical transmission
David Gisselquist
Independent Consultant, 29 West Governor Road, Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033, USA
Int J STD AIDS 13:657-66. 2002
..More research is warranted to clarify risks for HIV transmission through health care...
- Let it be sexual: how health care transmission of AIDS in Africa was ignored
David Gisselquist
Int J STD AIDS 14:148-61. 2003
..We urge renewed, evidence-based, investigations into the proportion of African HIV from non-sexual exposures...
- Heterosexual transmission of HIV in Africa: an empiric estimate
David Gisselquist
Int J STD AIDS 14:162-73. 2003
..These findings call for reconceptualization of research to more accurately assess routes of HIV transmission...
- Confound it: latent lessons from the Mwanza trial of STD treatment to reduce HIV transmission
David Gisselquist
Int J STD AIDS 14:179-84. 2003
..To control for confound, additional data and analyses from the Mwanza study are warranted...
- Emergence of the HIV type 1 epidemic in the twentieth century: comparing hypotheses to evidence
David Gisselquist
West Governor Road, Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033, USA
AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 19:1071-8. 2003
..This suggests an important role for parenteral transmission in the early spread of HIV. Further research could improve our understanding of the early HIV epidemic...
- Parallel and overlapping HIV and bloodborne hepatitis epidemics in Africa
David Gisselquist
Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033, USA
Int J STD AIDS 15:145-52. 2004
..Across these cohorts, there is a trend for HCV prevalence to increase with HIV, though much of the variance is unexplained. For 25 cohorts with sufficient data, the median relative risk for HCV infection for persons with HIV is 1.52...
- HIV infections as unanticipated problems during medical research in Africa
David Gisselquist
Account Res 16:199-217. 2009
..Findings from such investigations could have a broad and beneficial impact on health care safety in Africa...
- Exploratory study of blood exposures that are risks for HIV among Luo and Kisii ethnic groups in Nyanza province, Kenya
T Ounga
Tropical Focus for Rural Development, 660 PO Box 6443 code 40103, Kismu, Kenya
Int J STD AIDS 20:19-23. 2009
..Luo were significantly more likely than Kisii to report some risks (e.g. tattooing by a traditional expert, piercing), but less likely to report others (e.g. blood tests for malaria, anaesthetic injections during circumcision)...
- Knowledge of HIV survival on skin-piercing instruments among young adults in Nyanza Province, Kenya
T Ounga
Tropical Focus for Rural Development, PO Box 6443 40103, Kisumu, Kenya
Int J STD AIDS 20:119-22. 2009
..People we interviewed, at risk from blood-borne HIV, did not know enough to protect themselves...
