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Carl A. Latkin

Researcher at Johns Hopkins University

Publications -  844
Citations -  24540

Carl A. Latkin is an academic researcher from Johns Hopkins University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 71, co-authored 734 publications receiving 19838 citations. Previous affiliations of Carl A. Latkin include University of London & University of Baltimore.

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Housing stability, residential transience, and HIV testing among low-income urban African Americans.

TL;DR: In multivariate analyses, residential transience was positively associated with recent HIV testing; however, persons unstably housed were not more likely to have recently been tested for HIV despite their increased vulnerability and risk.
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Mortality among injection drug users in northern Thailand: a prospective cohort study.

TL;DR: The all-cause mortality among the drug injectors is high and the increased mortality was associated with HIV infection, benzodiazepine use, and excessive alcohol consumption.
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Economic vulnerability of methadone maintenance patients: Implications for policies on co-payment services

TL;DR: The health care costs are still financially burden to many drug users and remained over the course of MMT that implies the necessity of continuous supports from the program, and scaling-up and decentralizing integrated MMT clinics together with economic empowerments for treated drugusers and their families should be prioritized.
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An Evaluation of the Buffering Effects of Types and Sources of Support on Depressive Symptoms Among Natural Disaster-Exposed Chinese Adults.

TL;DR: Perceived family support buffered the effect of disaster exposure in this sample, while received family support was associated with increased depression, and perceived family support moderated the relationship between disaster exposure and depressive symptoms.
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"Let Me Help You Help Me": Church-Based HIV Prevention for Young Black Men Who Have Sex With Men.

TL;DR: It is concluded that Black churches can be a critical access point for HIV prevention among YBMSM and represent an important setting to intervene.