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17443295

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-4-19
pubmed:abstractText
The course of the HIV epidemic in Germany can be modelled by back calculation until the beginning of the nineties. The recent course of the epidemic can only be derived from surveillance data of newly diagnosed HIV infections in conjunction with other data sources. Based on these surveillance data HIV incidence in Germany can be estimated to have been stable with 2000 to 2500 new infections per year since the early nineties, after having peaked in the early eighties. The most affected group are men who have sex with men followed by persons infected by heterosexual contact and migrants from high prevalence countries. The number of intravenous drug users has declined over the years and is now in fourth place. There are indications that increased risk behaviour and rising numbers of other sexually transmitted infections together with a change towards later initiation of antiretroviral therapy has led to an increase in new HIV infections in Germany in recent years. An improvement of the epidemiological surveillance for "indicator" STIs in combination with the assessment of risk behaviours in high risk groups would be desirable steps towards a second generation surveillance in Germany.
pubmed:language
ger
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1436-9990
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
50
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
399-411
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
[Epidemiology of HIV infections in Germany].
pubmed:affiliation
Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, BRD. HamoudaO@rki.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract, Review