injection drug users
Wide Variation in the Multiplicity of HIV-1 Infection among Injection Drug Users
... Recent studies indicate that sexual transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) generally results from productive infection by only one virus, a finding attributable to the mucosal barrier. Surprisingly, ...
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MBL2and Hepatitis C Virus Infection among Injection Drug Users
... Table 3: Common variants in MBL2 and odds ratio for being HCV RNA negative among injection drug users European Americans Locus.. HCV RNA Negative.[r] ...
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Evidence for a "Founder Effect" among HIV infected injection drug users (IDUs) in Pakistan
... In 2004, in the remote desert town of Larkana, Paki- stan experienced its first HIV outbreak [2]. The impli- cated populace was a community of Injection Drug Users (IDU), who documented an HIV ...
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Age and sharing of needle injection equipment in a cohort of Massachusetts injection drug users: an observational study
... share injection drug equipment, and to identify factors that might modify this ...area injection drug users followed during the period in which HCV infection in Massachusetts was ...
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Characterization of HIV 1 envelopes in acutely and chronically infected injection drug users
... of injection drug users [58], there are still only a limited number of samples from individ- uals sampled prior to HIV-1 ...of injection drug users because of subject ...
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The Washington Needle Depot: fitting healthcare to injection drug users rather than injection drug users to healthcare: moving from a syringe exchange to syringe distribution model
... The WND is available when, where and how addicts need the program, and is flexible in meeting new needs that arise out of the context of addicts' real, and not imagined lives, where illness and the risk of it exist in ...
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High HCV seroprevalence and HIV drug use risk behaviors among injection drug users in Pakistan
... expanding drug treatment to prevent or curb injection ...of drug abuse treatment in Paki- stan ...reducing injection risks among IDUs, as has recently been endorsed by the United Nations and ...
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Factors associated with willingness to take extended release naltrexone among injection drug users
... of injection drug users requires ...of drug users ...on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Clinical Trials Network (CTN) 055 CHOICES study ...
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Persistence of low drug treatment coverage for injection drug users in large US metropolitan areas
... of drug users entering treatment who inject drugs (from TEDS) in each MSA and year by the total number of drug users in treatment as reported by both ...enters drug treatment twice or ...
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Factors associated with premature mortality among young injection drug users in Vancouver
... among injection drug users (IDUs) is higher than in the general population with rates of mor- tality estimated to range between ...onset injection drug users, mortality rates ...
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Methodology for evaluating Insite: Canada's first medically supervised safer injection facility for injection drug users
... among injection drug users ...public injection drug use, in September 2003, Vancouver, Canada opened a pilot medically supervised safer injecting facility (SIF), where IDUs can inject ...
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HIV‑1 protease inhibitor drug resistance in Kenyan antiretroviral treatment‑naive and ‑experienced injection drug users and non‑drug users
... Kenya. Injection drug users were recruited via respondent-driven, snowball and makeshift-outreach sampling ...exhibiting injection nee- dle-stick scars and reporting a history of injecting any ...
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Socio-demographic and sexual practices associated with HIV infection in Kenyan injection and non-injection drug users
... the injection and non-injection drug users. The divorced, widowed or separated individuals form one of the high HIV risk groups in Kenya [43]. However, it is not known whether these ...
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Reports of evidence planting by police among a community-based sample of injection drug users in Bangkok, Thailand
... reduce drug availability and consumption ...well, drug law enforcement has been associated with increases in health- related harms among drug users ...within drug markets has been ...
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Importance of hepatitis c screening in high risk populations such as injection drug users, family contacts, surgical and chronic kidney disease patients in india
... inject drug (PWID) remain at high risk for both acquisition and transmission of ...million injection drug users being HCV ...PWID users in Amritsar showed 41% drug abuse ...
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Hunger and associated harms among injection drug users in an urban Canadian setting
... illicit drug users have also been the subject of ongoing police crackdowns on drug use that have forced them into per- ipheral urban areas ...
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Strategies for recruiting injection drug users for HIV prevention services in Delhi, India
... former drug users or those from the same community as the drug users so that they can gain the trust of and have credibility with their target population ...IDU drug use, risky ...
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Drug choice, spatial distribution, HIV risk, and HIV prevalence among injection drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia
... Active IDUs were recruited over a 10 month period by peer recruitment, street outreach and from rehabilitation and detoxification facilities. Details of the recruitment patterns [16] and spatial distribution of ...
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Compulsory drug detention center experiences among a community-based sample of injection drug users in Bangkok, Thailand
... compulsory drug detention experience among ...compulsory drug detention experience using univariate statistics and multivariate logistic ...heroin injection ever (yes vs. no), methamphetamine ...
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B.Y.O. Heroin: Will Canada Finally Recognize the Fundamental Rights of Injection Drug Users by Providing Access to Safe Injection Facilities?
... Safe injection facilities like Insite have proven effective in providing adequate health care assistance to addicted individuals. Typically, there are two governmental app[r] ...
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