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Global overview of injecting drug use and HIV infection among injecting drug users
AIDS, 2004To provide global estimates of the prevalence of injecting drug use (IDU) and HIV prevalence among IDU, in particular to provide estimates for developing and transitional countries.Collation and review of existing estimates of IDU prevalence and HIV prevalence from published and unpublished documents for the period 1998-2003.
Aceijas, C +3 more
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Economic Perspectives On Injecting Drug Use
2006Injecting drug use (IDU) has traditionally been seen as a law enforcement problem and a stain on society. With the emergence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), however, the discourse on IDU has widened to include crucial public health and human rights concerns.
David E, Bloom +2 more
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Explanations for sharing injection equipment in injecting drug users and barriers to safer drug use
Addiction, 1994AbstractWe examined the explanations given by a sample of 1245 injecting drug users in Sydney, Australia for accepting used injection equipment. Factor analysis of these reasons revealed three dimensions of sharing: not caring when withdrawing or intoxicated, unavailability of equipment, and not seeing it as high risk or ease of injecting.
M W, Ross, A, Wodak, A, Stowe, J, Gold
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HIV and injection drug use in Latin America
AIDS, 2002This paper presents HIV/AIDS-related data on injection drug use (IDU) and drug use trends in Latin America, and policy issues and strategies developed to face the HIV epidemic.Serosurveillance data on HIV/AIDS and IDU in Latin America were compiled. Key experts were consulted in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.
Carlos Magis, Rodríguez +2 more
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Use of liposomes as injectable-drug delivery systems
American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 1989The formation of liposomes and their application as delivery systems for injectable drugs are described. Liposomes are microscopic vesicles composed of one or more lipid membranes surrounding discrete aqueous compartments. These vesicles can encapsulate water-soluble drugs in their aqueous spaces and lipid-soluble drugs within the membrane itself ...
M J, Ostro, P R, Cullis
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HIV treatment, injection drug use, and illicit drug policies
The Lancet, 2007The global over-reliance on criminal justice approaches to illicit drug use is putting the lives of injection drug users (IDUs) at risk. This policy approach severely undermines HIV-prevention efforts and the effects may be even worse for HIV-infected IDUs because criminal justice strategies interfere with IDUs ability to access and remain successfully
Evan, Wood +2 more
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Abstract Injecting drug use carries with it a significant risk of harms, including overdose and its attendant morbidity and mortality, contracting blood-borne virus infections and other local and systemic infections (including bacterial and fungal ones), and thromboembolism, and psychosocial sequelae including marginalization and ...
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Viral Infections Associated With Injection Drug Use
JAMAThis JAMA Insights discusses common viral infections associated with injection drug use, including HIV and hepatitis, as well as strategies for prevention.
Sabrina A, Assoumou +2 more
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Botulism: a rare complication of injecting drug use
Emergency Medicine Journal, 2008Botulism is a rare, naturally occurring disease that may also be caused by deliberate or accidental exposure to the toxins of Clostridium botulinum. The three types of naturally occurring disease are food-borne, wound and intestinal colonisation botulism, dependent on the route of ingress of the toxins. Food related botulism remains rare in the UK, but
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