injecting drug use
My first time: initiation into injecting drug use in Manipur and Nagaland, north-east India
... into injecting in Melbourne, Australia [10], but was adapted for the local context and ...current drug use; self-reported HIV and hepatitis C status; and initiation of others into injecting ...
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Exploring associations between perceived HCV status and injecting risk behaviors among recent initiates to injecting drug use in Glasgow
... characteristics, injecting risk behaviors, and perceived HCV status of the study partici- pants are summarized in Table ...of injecting career was ...for drug use (84%), and more than half the ...
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Injecting drug use in Manipur and Nagaland, Northeast India: injecting and sexual risk behaviours across age groups
... and injecting drug use in Manipur and Nagaland was historically punitive but is now guided by internationally recognized harm reduction principles ...
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Improved benchmark-multiplier method to estimate the prevalence of ever-injecting drug use in Belgium, 2000–10
... For Belgium, the latest estimate of the ever-IDU preva- lence date from 1995 and was obtained adopting the BM approach using the HIV/AIDS register as benchmark [13]. However, the Belgium HIV/AIDS register suffers from ...
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Prevalence of injecting drug use in Estonia 2010–2015: a capture-recapture study
... been injecting (26% up to 3 years in 2005 [14] ...starting injecting, potentially leading to a decrease in the number of ...main drug injected by PWID remains a synthetic opi- ...
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Injecting drug use and unstable housing: Scope for structural interventions in harm reduction
... among drug users, including riskier drug injecting ...with injecting drug users (IDUs) in Bristol and London in ...through drug user networks and drug ...street-based ...
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The rise of injecting drug use in East Africa: a case study from Kenya
... The use of obscure terminology also assists heroin users in conduct- ing their illegal and socially sanctioned activities within the midst of mainstream ...setting use a mixture of Swahili and English loan ...
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Correlates of property crime in a cohort of recently released prisoners with a history of injecting drug use
... poly-drug use common among samples of PWID. Two specific patterns of substance use were associated with property crime in multivariable analyses: daily injecting and illicit benzodiazepine ...
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Drug use and risk behaviours among injecting drug users: a comparison between sex workers and non-sex workers in Sydney, Australia
... in drug types used by SW and N-SW, however SW initiated injecting drug use at a younger ...stance use by an early age are more likely to develop prob- lematic substance use ...
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Adherence to response guided pegylated interferon and ribavirin for people who inject drugs with hepatitis C virus genotype 2/3 infection: the ACTIVATE study
... While PEG-IFN based therapies have recently been re- placed by new DAA therapies in many settings, data on the adherence to HCV therapies among PWID is still needed. In many countries, concerns still exist regarding the ...
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A systematic review of current knowledge of HIV epidemiology and of sexual behaviour in Nepal
... namely injecting drug users and female commercial sex workers ...(FCSWs). Drug use in Nepal is a long-standing ...is injecting drug use (IDU), ...
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Infectious diseases, NSW: May 1998
... reporting injecting drug use (Table ...through injecting drug use or heterosexual contact may be somewhat more difficult to reach with ...
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A review of the evidence for the effectiveness of primary prevention interventions for Hepatitis C among injecting drug users
... An example of this was the contentious debate following the outbreak of HIV in Vancouver, Canada in 1994 [24]. The rapid rise in HIV prevalence was preceded by the introduction of an NEP in 1989. Prior to the outbreak ...
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The filter of choice: filtration method preference among injecting drug users
... illicit drug users before injection in order to eliminate impurities of the drug containing ...from injecting drug use depend on the characteris- tics of the filter used ...
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Profiles of risk: a qualitative study of injecting drug users in Tehran, Iran
... current drug policy responses in Iran depart from the anti-trafficking focus and draconian measures of the past, and give an indication of the plausibility of implementing the typology-suggested interventions and ...
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Double jeopardy--drug and sex risks among Russian women who inject drugs: initial feasibility and efficacy results of a small randomized controlled trial
... and drug use [14,16]. Among IDUs, for exam- ple, drug use may impair judgment and increase risky sex behaviors, including unprotected sex, having multi- ple sex partners, or exchanging sex for ...
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Temporal differences in gamma-hydroxybutyrate overdoses involving injecting drug users versus recreational drug users in Helsinki: a retrospective study
... of injecting drug use, overdosed in the middle of the week or in the early evenings and were encountered more often in private residences and out- doors (Tables 1, Figures 5 and ...6). ...
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FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH HEPATITIS B AND C CO-INFECTION AMONG PEOPLE LIVING WITH HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS IN VIETNAM
... of injecting drug use and duration of ARV treatment); interpersonal levels (practicing unsafe sex and partner’s history of injecting drugs); organizational level (place of residence); and ...
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Infectious diseases, NSW: November 1998
... Unsafe drug injecting is a major route of HIV infection; however, the HIV prevalence amongst injecting drug users (IDUs) in Australia has remained one of the lowest in the world, at less than ...
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Differences in sociodemographic, drug use and health characteristics between never, former and current injecting, problematic hard-drug users in the Netherlands
... and drug use ...polydrug use) and NIDUs appeared to have the most favourable characteristics (stable housing, help with debts, less polydrug ...Regarding injecting practices, results showed ...
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