Injection Drug Use and Hiv Infection
High prevalence of HIV infection among homeless and street-involved Aboriginal youth in a Canadian setting
... for HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) ...homelessness, injection drug use, syringe sharing, history of incarcera- tion, history of sex work, history of sexual abuse, ever engaging in anal intercourse, ...
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Underreported injection drug use and its potential contribution to reported increase in sexual transmission of HIV in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
... an HIV-positive PWID sex ...10.4% HIV prevalence among female partners who reported never injecting drugs and the authors in the latter study assumed that HIV infection in this group occurred ...
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Elevated rates of HIV infection among young Aboriginal injection drug users in a Canadian setting
... baseline HIV prevalence and subsequent elevated HIV incidence among young Aboriginal injection drug ...using injection drugs and an increased vulnerability to sex ...appropriate ...
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Methamphetamine use and rates of incarceration among street-involved youth in a Canadian setting: a cross-sectional analysis
... for drug related harm among IDU, since exposure to correctional environments has consistently been associated with an increased likelihood of HIV risk behavior and HIV infection [14,15] as ...
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Predictors of HIV infection and prevalence for syphilis infection among injection drug users in China: Community-based surveys along major drug trafficking routes
... Injection drug use (IDU) represents the largest single cause of HIV transmission in China, accounting for nearly half of the infections at the end of 2005 ...registered drug users has ...
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Five year trends in epidemiology and prevention of mother to child HIV transmission, St Petersburg, Russia: results from perinatal HIV surveillance
... perinatal HIV surveillance also included information about laboratory tests for HIV-infected ...recommends HIV testing twice during pregnancy-at the first prenatal care visit, and again after 34 ...
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Injection drug use, unsafe medical injections, and HIV in Africa: a systematic review
... Heroin use was introduced in the 1980s in a form called "brown sugar" that is smoked (men call this "chasing the dragon") ...of HIV infection, with an HIV prevalence two to ten ...
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Reducing the Risk of HIV Infection Associated With Illicit Drug Use
... sterile injection drug equipment remain con- troversial, because they do not directly address the causes and broader consequences of injection drug ...lating injection drug ...
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A situational picture of HIV/AIDS and injection drug use in Vinnitsya, Ukraine
... with HIV face a great deal of stigma and lack a widespread support system within their ...Vinnitsya, HIV positive patients tend to stay secluded and often are very con- cerned that other people not learn ...
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Retrospective analysis of antiretroviral therapy uptake and retention of male clients receiving methadone maintenance therapy in two provinces in Vietnam: potential synergy of the two therapies
... concentrated HIV epidemic with injection drug use (IDU) as the dominant mode of transmission [1, ...the HIV sentinel surveillance in 2013, HIV prevalence in people who inject ...
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Wide Variation in the Multiplicity of HIV-1 Infection among Injection Drug Users
... recent HIV-1 infection and a concurrent history of injection drug use were selected for ...sexual HIV-1 acquisition. Clinical his- tory and laboratory tests of HIV-1 ...
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High HCV seroprevalence and HIV drug use risk behaviors among injection drug users in Pakistan
... prevent HIV/HCV transmission should also include increasing the availability of sterile needles through needle exchange programs or pharmacies and expanding drug treatment to prevent or curb ...
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Increased hepatitis C virus co infection and injection drug use in HIV infected fishermen in Myanmar
... with HIV and HCV have a higher incidence of other illnesses, such as an al- most two-fold risk of developing cancer ...The HIV/ HCV co-infection rates seen in these fishermen, as well as the ...
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Social determinants and risk behaviors associated with prevalent Hepatitis C and HIV/HCV co-infection among male injection drug users in Nepal
... and HIV and HCV are a major burden among IDUs in the region ...Although, HIV among male IDUs has significantly decreased from 68% in 2002 to ...to HIV infections ...include use of unsterilized ...
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Designing an experimental HIV/HCV intervention to promote the safe re-use of drug preparation materials by injection drug users in Puerto Rico
... HCV infection among injection drug users (IDUs) in Puerto Rico constitutes a public health emer- gency even after two decades of epidemiological and anthropological research ...document HIV ...
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Socio-demographic and sexual practices associated with HIV infection in Kenyan injection and non-injection drug users
... in HIV-infected non-drug users and injection drug ...of HIV-infection in non-drug users and injec- tion drug users, ...stimulant drug use and engaging ...
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Illicit drug use and its association with sexual risk behaviour among MSM
... substance use can be considered syndemic among ...substance use, and HIV risk behaviours (41, ...substance use was found to be a key syndemic factor with intimate partner violence, HIV ...
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Optimal management of pediatric hepatitis C infection: a review
... HCV infection is a worldwide health care problem affecting millions of adults and ...this infection starts with screening and identification of patients at risk, which in turn facilitates treatment ...
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Hepatitis C bio-behavioural surveys in people who inject drugs—a systematic review of sensitivity to the theoretical assumptions of respondent driven sampling
... This systematic review is the first to describe the use of RDS in HCV epidemiology and explore sensitivity to the methodological assumptions underlying RDS in these studies. In so doing, it draws attention to ...
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Sexual Abuse of Children: Intersection With the HIV Epidemic
... with HIV infection who had not yet progressed to AIDS, we found 26 HIV-infected children who had been sexually abused and had confirmed or suspected exposure to HIV infection (Table ...
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