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Tuberculosis, injecting drug use and integrated HIV-TB care: a review of the literature. [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: People who inject drugs (PWID) are at increased risk of tuberculosis (TB) and reduced retention in treatment. There is a need to document strategies for integrated delivery of HIV, TB and drug dependency care.
Grenfell, Pippa, Platt, Lucy, Baptista Leite, Ricardo, de Lussigny, Smiljka, Rhodes, Tim, Leite, Ricardo Baptista, Garfein, Richard   +6 more
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Exploring barriers to 'Respondent driven sampling' in sex worker and drug-injecting sex worker populations in Eastern Europe [PDF]

, 2006
Respondent driven sampling (RDS) has been used in several counties to sample injecting drug users, sex workers (SWs) and men who have sex with men and as a means of collecting behavioural and biological health data.
Platt, Lucy, Rhodes, T, Simic, Milena, Novotny, Tom, Johnston, Lisa Grazina, Sladjana Baros, Milena Simic, Violeta Andjelkovic, Baros, S, Lucy Platt, Rhodes, Tim, Lisa Grazina Johnston, Tim Rhodes, Simic, M, Platt, L, Baros, Sladjana, Andjelkovic, Violeta, Novotny, T, Tom Novotny, Johnston, LG, Andjelkovic, V   +20 more
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An improved optimistic three-stage model for the spread of HIV amongst injecting intravenous drug users [PDF]

, 2009
We start off this paper with a brief introduction to modeling Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) amongst sharing, injecting drug users (IDUs). Then we describe the mathematical model which we shall use which
Greenhalgh, David, Al-Fwzan, Wafa, Saudi-Arabian Government (Funder)   +2 more
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Frequency, factors and costs associated with injection site infections: findings from a national multi-site survey of injecting drug users in England. [PDF]

, 2008
BACKGROUND: Injection site infections among injecting drug users (IDUs) have been associated with serious morbidity and health service costs in North America.
Ncube, F, Ncube, Fortune, Kimber, Jo, Hope, V, Vickerman, Peter, Vickerman, P, Hickman, M, Kimber, J, Hope, Vivian, Hickman, Matthew, Vickerman Peter, Ncube Fortune, Kimber Jo, Hickman Matthew, Hope Vivian   +14 more
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HIV risk behaviours among women who inject drugs in coastal Kenya: findings from secondary analysis of qualitative data

Harm Reduction Journal, 2019
Background Injecting drug users are at high risk of HIV infection globally. Research related to female drug users is rare in Kenya, yet it is required to inform the development of gender-sensitive HIV prevention and harm reduction services in East Africa,
Gitau Mburu, Mark Limmer, Paula Holland
doaj   +1 more source

Does sexuality matter? A cross-sectional study of drug use, social injecting, and access to injection-specific care among men who inject drugs in Melbourne, Australia

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Background Gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) are overrepresented in cohorts of people who inject drugs. GBMSM’s substance use is usually explored in the context of its contribution to sexual risk.
Sophia E. Schroeder, A. L. Wilkinson, D. O’Keefe, A. Bourne, J. S. Doyle, M. Hellard, P. Dietze, A. Pedrana   +7 more
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History of injection drug use in the month preceding incarceration in Iranian prisons

Scientific Reports
This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and pattern of injecting drug use (IDU) in Iranian incarcerated people one month before their imprisonment.
Mitra Darbandi, Willi McFarland, Soheil Mehmandoost, Fatemeh Tavakoli, Maliheh Sadat Bazrafshan, Naser Nasiri, Ali Akbar Haghdoost, Meraj Sharifi, Roya Safari Faramani, Hamid Sharifi   +9 more
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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

Harm Reduction Journal, 2005
Background This paper examines the differences in demographics, drug use patterns and self reported risk behaviours between regular injecting drug users (IDU) who report engaging in sex work for money or drugs and regular injecting drug users who do not.
Breen Courtney, Degenhardt Louisa, Roxburgh Amanda   +2 more
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Solid Pseudopapillary Neoplasm of the Pancreas in Children and Adolescents: Expert Recommendations

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Solid pseudopapillary neoplasm of the pancreas (SPN) is a rare low‐grade malignant exocrine pancreatic tumor, mostly discovered during the second decade of life in females, with a very good prognosis, provided microscopically complete surgical excision is achieved.
Sabine Irtan, Michael Abele, Calogero Virgone, Michaela Kuhlen, Ricardo Lopez‐Almarez, Tal Ben‐Ami, Ewa Bien, Maja Cesen, Malgorzata A. Krawczyk, Andrea Ferrari, Gianni Bisogno, Yves Reguerre, Dominik T. Schneider, Louise Galmiche, Jorg Fuchs, Sarah Braungart, Bilgehan Yalcin, Ines B. Brecht, Daniel Orbach   +18 more
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Regional differences in HIV prevalence among drug users in China: potential for future spread of HIV? [PDF]

, 2008
Kretzschmar M, Zhang W, Mikolajczyk RT, et al. Regional differences in HIV prevalence among drug users in China: potential for future spread of HIV? BMC Infectious Diseases. 2008;8(1):108.Background: Drug use and in particular injecting drug use has been
Weidong Zhang, Wang, Lan, Lv Fan, Lv, Fan, Xinhua Sun, Zhang Weidong, Sun, Xinhua, Alexander Kraemer, Fan Lv, Kretzschmar, Mirjam, Wang Lan, Sun Xinhua, Mirjam Kretzschmar, Kretzschmar Mirjam, Kraemer Alexander, Zhang, Weidong, Krämer, Alexander ; https://orcid.org/, Mikolajczyk Rafael T, Mikolajczyk, Rafael T., Lan Wang, Rafael T Mikolajczyk   +20 more
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