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Lev Khodakevich
Bio: Lev Khodakevich is an academic researcher from Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social change & Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 84 citations.
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TL;DR: The research reported here was undertaken in 1997-8 and describes the potential medium to long term social and economic impact of an HIV/AIDS epidemic in Ukraine using the concepts of risk environment, susceptibility and vulnerability.
86 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, a shift in focus towards the risk environment as a unit of analysis and change helps to overcome the limits of individualism characterising most HIV prevention interventions as well as to appreciate how drug-related harm intersects with health and vulnerability more generally.
987 citations
01 Jan 1984
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the development of demography in Hungary from 1928 to the present with a focus on the contribution of Hungarian demographers to the activities of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP).
Abstract: The author describes the development of demography in Hungary from 1928 to the present with a focus on the contribution of Hungarian demographers to the activities of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). This paper is part of an IUSSP project that deals with the history of the Union and involves the preparation of papers on such activities in several countries. (summary in ENG RUS) (ANNOTATION)
679 citations
TL;DR: It is estimated that, during 2010-15, HIV prevalence could be reduced by 41% in Odessa (Ukraine), 43% in Karachi (Pakistan), and 30% in Nairobi (Kenya) through a 60% reduction of the unmet need of programmes for opioid substitution, needle exchange, and antiretroviral therapy.
497 citations
TL;DR: A sociological framework is proposed to better understand how spatial characteristics translate into people's physical and psychosocial conditions that are relevant to their health and is applied to the explanation of the life expectancy gap between Western and Central/Eastern European countries.
249 citations
TL;DR: It is emphasised that risk reduction practices may be influenced less by availability of injecting equipment than by an interplay of situational and micro-environmental factors and the role of policing practices in influencing risk reduction.
248 citations