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The Lancet Public Health, 2022 Summary: Background: A considerable proportion of people who inject drugs are unstably housed. Although unstable housing is associated with HIV and HCV infection among people who inject drugs, its contribution to transmission is unknown.
Jack Stone, PhD +6 more
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Correlates of initiating OAT among people who inject drugs (N = 122).
, 2023 Correlates of initiating OAT among people who inject drugs (N = 122).
Faye Taxman (8488884) +9 more
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Harm Reduction Journal, 2018 Background Despite increasing contraceptive availability, unintended pregnancy remains a global problem. Developing strategies to reverse this trend and increasing occurrence of withdrawal syndrome among newborn children of females currently injecting ...
Anneli Uusküla +3 more
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019 Background In recent years, the number of infective endocarditis (IE) cases associated with injection drug use has increased. Clinical guidelines suggest deferring surgery for IE in people who inject drugs (PWID) due to a concern for worse outcomes in ...
David Goodman-Meza +7 more
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Prevalence of HCV among people who inject drugs in Brussels—a respondent-driven sampling survey
Harm Reduction Journal, 2020 Background In Belgium, people who inject drugs (PWID) are at a high risk of being infected by hepatitis C (HCV) as injecting drug use is the main mode for transmission of HCV in Europe.
Luk Van Baelen +3 more
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Hepatitis C virus risk among young people who inject drugs
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 BackgroundInjection drug use (IDU) is the leading risk factor for hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission in the U.S. While the general risk factors for HCV transmission are known, there is limited work on how these factors interact and impact young people ...
Pedro Mateu-Gelabert +8 more
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Estimating the population size of people who inject drugs in Canada, 2021. [PDF]
Can Commun Dis RepBACKGROUND: People who inject drugs are disproportionately affected by HIV and hepatitis C infections. Estimating the size and distribution of this population is essential in monitoring infectious diseases rates and progress towards elimination ...
Williams A +7 more
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Frequency distribution of socio-cognitive factors among people who inject drugs (n = 611).
, 2022 Frequency distribution of socio-cognitive factors among people who inject drugs (n = 611).
Mucho M. Mizinduko (6058379) +10 more
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Uptake of COVID-19 vaccination among people who inject drugs
Harm Reduction Journal, 2022 Background People who inject drugs (PWID) may be at elevated risk of adverse outcomes from SARS-CoV-2 infection; however, data on COVID-19 vaccine uptake among PWID are scarce.
Jenny Iversen +7 more
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Harm Reduction Journal, 2020 Mozambique has one of the highest burdens of HIV globally, and people who inject drugs (PWID) have one of the highest HIV infection rates in Africa.
Cynthia Semá Baltazar +2 more
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