Word for Word

8 Jun 2014

The Perfect Storm – Drug use and HIV with Dr Marcus Day

Health, News & Politics, Society & Culture

WARNING: This podcast contains coarse language, sexual references and discussions about drug use. Listener discretion is advised.

Today’s guest is a leading expert on the sexual transmission of HIV associated with non-injecting crack cocaine use and HIV in the Caribbean.

Dr Marcus Day is the Director of the Caribbean Drug & Alcohol Research Institute based in Castries, Saint Lucia. The Institute studies the overlap between drug use and HIV infection on vulnerable populations.

He lives in the ghettos amongst the communities he serves and is renowned for being a straight shooter – telling it like it is!!

He has served as principal investigator on two ongoing research projects:

• Crack cocaine and HIV Risk Street Drug Users in Saint Lucia and
• Drug use and HIV Risk Behaviours among Caribbean MSM community.

Marcus Day spoke with Dean Beck recently when he was in town as part of the organising committee finalising the program for AIDS 2014.

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