Experiences and perceptions of people who use heroin: public health lessons from Hermosillo, Mexico.

Heroin consumption in Mexico is low compared with its use in the United States; however, this practice is more common in the northern region of Mexico than in the rest of the country, being documented only in cities that are located exactly at the Mexico-U.S. border.

Challenges of health services related to the population displaced by violence in Mexico.

Objective: To analyze the impacts of the care to the population displaced by violence on the health system and the challenges that this entails.

Methods: This is a narrative review of the national and international literature in PubMed, SciELO, WHO/PAHO, and Bireme. Inclusion criteria were date of publication (from 2000), relation with the subject, and language (Spanish or English).

[Working conditions in outpatient clinics adjacent to private pharmacies in Mexico City: perspective of physicians].

Objective: To analyse the working conditions of physicians in outpatient clinics adjacent to pharmacies (CAFs) and their organizational elements from their own perspective.

Methods: We carried out an exploratory qualitative study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 32 CAF physicians in Mexico City.

["Give me a pill": the meanings of AIDS in bareback practice in Mexico City and its implications for HIV prevention].

Objective: To analyze and understand the meanings that gay men in Mexico City associate to unprotected sex such as bareback practices.

Materials And Methods: Exploratory qualitative study that uses grounded theory analysis of semistructured interviews with gay men that practice bareback sex recruited through the internet. Also a documentary analysis was performed.

Public health services and their relationship with rapid HIV test utilization and access for key populations in Morelos, Mexico.

Objective: In 2009, 4 749 rapid HIV tests were run in Morelos, Mexico, despite lacking evidence on their results. This article seeks to analyze how public health organization relates to utility of rapid HIV test among healthcare users.

Materials And Methods: Joint study: comparison of differences in applied test and positive results for each group with the Bonferroni statistical tool, observational study in 34 health subsystems, and 11 interviews with public healthcare users.

The organization of key populations connected to HIV transmission: an intervention to abate stigma; Mexico, 2005-2009.

A qualitative and quantitative approach forms the base of this analysis of the results of "Vida Digna," a project aimed at abating stigma and discrimination in the HIV transmission field with actions taken by civil society organizations from 2005 to 2009 in the Mexican region of El Bajío. The results were analyzed in 2009 and 2010. The organizations involved were made up of key populations, defined as groups vulnerable to infection but also capable of resisting and controlling the transmission of HIV and the stigma and discrimination that are important barriers in the seeking of care and the achievement of effective HIV control.

[Diagnosis of capacity to perform essential public health functions in the Central American countries, the Dominican Republic, and the Mexican states of Chiapas and Quintana Roo].

Objective: Characterize the capacity of public and private institutions in the Central American countries, the Dominican Republic, and the Mexican states of Chiapas and Quintana Roo to perform essential public health functions (EPHFs).

Methods: An online survey of 83 organizations in Belize, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and the Mexican states of Chiapas and Quintana Roo was conducted to learn about their capacity to perform each of the 11 EPHFs. The results were validated in a workshop with representatives of the ministries of health from the seven countries and the two participating Mexican states.

[The inclusion of human rights in AIDS/HIV norms in Mexico and Central America: 1993-2000].

Objective: To analyze the inclusion of human rights in HIV/AIDS norms in Mexico and Central America for the 1993-2000 period.

Material And Methods: Norms and regulations for HIV/AIDS prevention and control in this region were analyzed. A constructivist perspective of judiciary subsystems and human rights was used as a reference framework, to establish categories of analysis with significance codes based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.