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DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7701-030-6-0189

PROBABLE CAUSES OF THE INCREASE IN HIV AND AIDS CASES IN THE CZECH AND SLOVAK REPUBLIC BETWEEN 2003 AND 2022 / PRAVDĚPODOBNÉ PŘÍČINY NÁRŮSTU PŘÍPADŮ HIV A AIDS V ČESKÉ A SLOVENSKÉ REPUBLICE MEZI LETY 2003 A 2022

Igor Danin Lobo Soares dos Santos ORCID...1, Beatriz Moraes Rodrigues de Oliveira ORCID...2, Michal Uhrin ORCID...3, Kristina Somerlíková ORCID...4, Miroslav Horák ORCID...5
1 Campus Soane Nazaré de Andrade, State University of Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, Brazil
2 Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, State University of São Paulo, Franca, Brazil
3 Department of Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, Gondova ulica 2, 811 02 Bratislava, Slovakia
4 Department of Regional and Business Economics, Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies, Mendel University in Brno, zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic
5 Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic

This paper aims to respond to why there has been an increase in HIV and AIDS cases in the Czech and Slovak Republics between 2003 and 2022. For this purpose, official statistics from the respective national health organizations were analyzed. It was searched for differences in the occurrence of HIV and AIDS in both countries using a t-test. This way, no statistically significant differences were identified. However, it was found that there is a statistical significance in the evolution of HIV in men and women in both countries. Among the probable causes of the increase in HIV and AIDS cases are the migration accelerated after the entry of both countries to the European Union, the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, the lack of prevention among homosexual and bisexual pairs, and the injecting drug use.

Keywords: HIV, AIDS, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic

pages: 189-197, Published: 2025, online: 2025



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