| high prevalence of blood-borne virus infections and high-risk behaviour among injecting drug users in tallinn, estonia. | the hiv epidemic in estonia is rapidly expanding, and injection drug users (idus) are the major risk group contributing to the expansion. a convenience sample of 159 idus visiting syringe-exchange programmes (seps) was selected to quantify the association of hiv-risk behaviours and blood-borne infections. a high prevalence of hiv, hepatitis b core antibody (hbvcore), hepatitis b surface antigen (hbsag) and hepatitis c virus antibodies (56, 85.1, 21.3, and 96.2%, respectively) was associated with ... | 2007 | 17326862 |
| a study on hiv and hepatitis c virus among commercial sex workers in tallinn. | 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. | 2008 | 18256109 |
| [the epidemiological aspects of viral hepatitides in estonia]. | the etiological structure of viral hepatitides among the adult population of tallinn and the occurrence of markers of hepatitis b and hepatitis c virus infections in medical workers, addict introducing drugs intravenously and hemodialysis patients were studied. changes in the etiological structure of viral hepatitides were established: they took the form of a decrease in the level of hepatitis a morbidity and the considerable growth of the role of hepatitides b and c, as well as the newly detect ... | 1999 | 10356734 |