ArticleArchives of sexual behavior2021
Association of Sexualized Drug Use Patterns with HIV/STI Transmission Risk in an Internet Sample of Men Who Have Sex with Men from Seven European Countries.
Article in Archives of sexual behavior, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05492565 (A Study to Evaluate Clinical Benefits and Drawbacks of Antiretroviral Drugs as Pre-exposure Prophylaxis to Prevent HIV Infection Under Real-life Conditions Among Persons Who Pursue High-risk Sexual Practices), which is not on this map. Cited by 36 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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A Study to Evaluate Clinical Benefits and Drawbacks of Antiretroviral Drugs as Pre-exposure Prophylaxis to Prevent HIV Infection Under Real-life Conditions Among Persons Who Pursue High-risk Sexual Practices: The Seville HIV PrEP Cohort
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36 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 55 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Risks for HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Men Who Have Sex with Men Who Engage in Chemsex in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Mixed Methods Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.AIDS and behavior · 2024Pooled it
- The impact of multiple-behavior HIV interventions as a function of regional disadvantages: An analysis of syndemics.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2023Pooled it
- Prevalence of sexualized drug use and risk of HIV among sexually active MSM in East and South Asian countries: systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2023Pooled it
- Running with Scissors: a Systematic Review of Substance Use and the Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Care Continuum Among Sexual Minority Men.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2022Pooled it
- Mental Health Symptoms Associated with Sexualized Drug Use (Chemsex) among Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Sexualized Drug Use Among Sexually and Gender Diverse Adolescents in Brazil.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- Perceived HIV-related stigma, mental health conditions and sexualized drug use among men who have sex with men living with HIV in Chongqing, China: a cross-sectional study.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2026Article
- Healthcare Access in Chemsex Contexts in Brazil: A Scoping Review and the VIP-Chemsex Model.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2026Review
- Chemsex Practice Among PrEP Users in Buenos Aires, Argentina.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- Addictive disorders and correlates in the context of chemsex practices: A French online survey.Addictive behaviors reports · 2026Article
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- Leveraging mHealth interventions to reduce sex- and drug-related risk behaviors among chemsex-involved men who have sex with men: evidence from a qualitative study.Harm reduction journal · 2026Article
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- Drug Addiction in Gay and Bisexual Men Living with HIV Engaged in Sexualized Drug Use: Recent Drug Use, Polydrug and Depressive Symptoms as Predictors.AIDS and behavior · 2025Article
- Identifying subgroups of Chinese men who have sex with men based on sexual behavior and drug use patterns using a clustering analysis approach.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Chemsex, sexualized drug use and emotional vulnerability among men who have sex with men (MSM): a one-month survey in a STI/HIV center.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Sexualized drug use factors among rural sexual minority men.The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2025Article
- Chemsex Session Typologies and Associated Sociodemographic Factors in Sexual Minority Men: Latent Class Analysis From a Cultural Perspective Using a Cross-Sectional Survey.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
- Types of psychoactive substance and manifested risky sexual behaviors among men - a review.Postepy psychiatrii neurologii · 2024Review
- Dynamicity of HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Usage Pattern and Association with Executed Adherence in MSM: An Implementation Study in Hong Kong.AIDS and behavior · 2024Article
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14 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
We estimated the prevalence of overall sexualized drug use (SDU) and of chemsex in particular, assessed patterns of drug use, and identified subpopulations of men who have sex with men (MSM) where SDU and chemsex are more frequent. Using data from an online survey of 9407 MSM recruited during 2016 in 7 European countries, we calculated the proportion of participants who reported SDU and chemsex (mephedrone, methamphetamine, and/or GHB/GBL) in the last 12 months. We grouped the different drug-use combinations in patterns and described sexual risk behaviors, sexually transmitted infections (STI), and HIV seropositivity for each one of them. Factors associated with SDU and chemsex were assessed with two logistic regression models. SDU was reported by 17.7% and chemsex by 5.2%. Risk indicators increased through the different SDU patterns but were higher within those including chemsex drugs. In the multivariate analysis, chemsex was independently associated with living in Slovenia. Both SDU and chemsex were independently associated with living in Spain; being < 50 years old; living in cities of > 500,000 inhabitants; being open about their sex life; reporting transactional sex; condomless anal intercourse; having received an STI diagnosis and with being HIV positive or having been tested ≤ 12 months ago. Magnitude of associations was higher in the chemsex model. One in five participants reported SDU, but prevalence of chemsex was notably lower. However, the risk profiles and higher prevalence of HIV/STIs among those involved in chemsex suggest the existence of a subpopulation of MSM that could be playing a relevant role in the HIV and STI epidemics, especially in very large cities of some countries.
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