HIV testing in the Danish population: a national representative survey, 2000.

Aims: To describe the accumulated prevalence of HIV testing in the Danish population until and including the year 2000.

Methods: The study was based on nationally representative data from the Danish Health Interview Survey 2000. Multiple logistic regression analysis investigated the association between HIV testing and background variables, such as gender, age, marital status, educational level, and sexual orientation.

[Incidence of HIV/AIDS in Denmark, 1990-2005].

Introduction: AIDS was defined in 1981, and HIV has spread globally since then. Most of the Danish AIDS patients have been men who have sex with men (MSM). After the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy in the mid-1990s, the incidence of AIDS in Denmark decreased dramatically.

Legal access to needles and syringes/needle exchange programmes versus HIV counselling and testing to prevent transmission of HIV among intravenous drug users: a comparative study of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

Background: Countries have adopted different strategies to prevent the transmission of HIV among intravenous drug users. Legal access to needles and syringes/needle exchange programmes as part of such a strategy has been heavily debated. HIV counselling and testing has also been part of prevention strategies.

Efficacy of selective antenatal screening for hepatitis B among pregnant women in Denmark: is selective screening still an acceptable strategy in a low-endemicity country?

The prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) carriage in Denmark is unknown, but expected to be low (0.1%). This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of selective antenatal screening for HBV infection and the epidemiology of HBV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) among pregnant women.

[Needlestick injuries among medical students at the University of Copenhagen. A questionnaire study in 2001].

Introduction: The aim of the study was to investigate the frequency of percutaneous and mucocutaneous injuries sustained by fourth and fifth year medical students at the University of Copenhagen.

Material And Methods: A questionnaire including questions on experience with invasive procedures, number and types of exposures, and post-exposure actions was mailed to 576 medical students. Enclosed was a prepaid return envelope, and a definition of percutaneous and mucocutaneous injuries was given in the introduction letter.

Cancer in a population-based cohort of men and women in registered homosexual partnerships.

Cancer patterns among broad populations of homosexual men and women have not been studied systematically. The authors followed 1,614 women and 3,391 men in Denmark for cancer from their first registration for marriage-like homosexual partnership between 1989 and 1997. Ratios of observed to expected cancers measured relative risk.

HIV/AIDS surveillance in Denmark: the challenges ahead.

In Denmark, AIDS has been a mandatory reportable disease since 1983, and confirmed HIV infection has been the same since August 1990. The annual AIDS incidence increased initially and peaked in 1993 (4.6 per 100,000 inhabitants), then decreased to 1.

Gonorrhoea in Denmark: high incidence among HIV-infected men who have sex with men.

Diagnosis of gonorrhoea indicates that relatively recent unprotected sex has been practised and thus there is possibly a risk of HIV transmission. A retrospective analysis of gonorrhoea cases reported to the Danish national surveillance system was carried out for the period 1994-1999. The analysis included demographic pattern and mode of transmission of gonorrhoea in Denmark with the focus on trends and factors related to infection in men who have sex with men (MSM).

Persistent high incidence of tuberculosis in immigrants in a low-incidence country.

Immigration from areas of high incidence is thought to have fueled the resurgence of tuberculosis (TB) in areas of low incidence. To reduce the risk of disease in low-incidence areas, the main countermeasure has been the screening of immigrants on arrival. This measure is based on the assumption of a prompt decline in the incidence of TB in immigrants during their first few years of residence in a country with low overall incidence.

Prion diseases: epidemiology in man.

Prion disease in man was first described as Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (CJD) in the 1920s. CJD may have three different origins: sporadic, familial, due to mutations in the prion gene, or infectious, due to iatrogenic exposure to infectious brain material. As an example of the latter, kuru, in Papua New Guinea, was a variant of CJD transmitted by cannibalism.