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Anonymous and Free HIV Testing Clinics (CDAG): Report on HIV Testing Activities, Paris, Trends 1998–2001
An analysis of activity data from the CDAGs in 1998 and 1999 revealed an increase in the proportion of positive HIV diagnoses in the Île-de-France region. In light of these results, the...
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An outbreak of hepatitis A among gay men in Paris in 2000
The introduction of the hepatitis A virus into a population of non-immune young adults, whose sexual practices facilitate fecal-oral transmission of the virus, represents a situation...
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An outbreak of meningococcal B infection in a town in the Jura region, January–February 2000
Between January 21 and February 16, 2000, the occurrence of three cases of meningococcal meningitis of the antigenic serotype B:15: P1-7, 16 and one suspected case in a town of 12,000...
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The 2001 syphilis epidemic in Guadeloupe: a link to social vulnerability and crack use
Venereal syphilis, which has been on the decline for twenty years in developed countries, has reached low incidence rates of less than 5 per 100,000. Some of these countries, including...
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Type 2 diabetes in France's overseas territories: an unintended consequence of modernization
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Cases of meningococcal infections of serogroup W135 linked to the March 2000 pilgrimage to Mecca: Update as of August 2, 2000
This update follows BEH No. 19/2000 of May 9, 2000, and outlines the main developments since that date. Following the occurrence of cases of serogroup W135 meningococcal infection among...
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RENACOQ: Hospital-based Pertussis Surveillance in 1998: A Review of Three Years of Surveillance
Since 1986, whooping cough has no longer been included on the list of reportable diseases. A pediatric hospital "sentinel" network (RENACOQ) was established in April 1996, following the...
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List of countries where antimalarial chemoprophylaxis is required
Due to an error in Table 1 of BEH 25/2000 (page 107), published on June 20, 2000, we are publishing here the corrected table, which supersedes the previous one.
