Suicide rates are higher in people with HIV. But how much higher?
ShutterstockOccasionally, an apparently orthodox, peer-reviewed scientific study crosses our desks at aidsmap that prompts the reaction “Really??” One such came along back in April, when a paper appeared in the medical journal General Psychiatry, which comes from the publishers of the British Medical Journal.
It was the first attempt to do a systematic review and meta-analysis of the rates of suicide, suicide attempts and suicidal ideation (thoughts) in people with HIV. The paper, by Matt PeIton and colleagues from Penn State University in the US, reviewed 40 studies from all continents that between them included 185,199 people with HIV.
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