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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, Els Plettinckx, Jérôme Antoine, Lies Gremeaux   +3 more
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Examining non-AIDS mortality among people who inject drugs [PDF]

AIDS, 2014
To systematically review and analyse data from cohorts of people who inject drugs (PWID) to improve existing estimates of non-AIDS mortality used to calculate mortality among PWID in the Spectrum Estimates and Projection Package.Systematic review and meta-analysis.We conducted an update of an earlier systematic review of mortality among PWID, searching
Mathers, BM, Degenhardt, L
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HCV treatment for prevention among people who inject drugs: Modeling treatment scale-up in the age of direct-acting antivirals. [PDF]

, 2013
UNLABELLED: Substantial reductions in hepatitis C virus (HCV) prevalence among people who inject drugs (PWID) cannot be achieved by harm reduction interventions such as needle exchange and opiate substitution therapy (OST) alone. Current HCV treatment is
Aitken, Allen, Berg, Burns, Cohen, Cohen, Cornish, Dahari, Dimova, Dore, Gane, Grebely, Grebely, Hagan, Hallinan, Harris, Health Protection Scotland and the University of the West of Scotland, Hellard, Hellard, Hickman, Innes, Iverson, Iverson, Jacobson, Kemp, Kim, Kimber, Kirwan, Lindenburg, Lindenburg, Liu, Liu, Ly, Maher, Martin, Martin, Martin, Mathers, McCaw, McInnes, Mehta, Micallef, Mondelli, Nelson, Nosyk, O'Keefe, Poordad, Poordad, Quinn, Shepard, Stoove, Sweeting, Turner, Vickerman, Vickerman, Wood, Zeiler   +56 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, Nasim S. Sabounchi, Honoria Guarino, Courtney Ciervo, Kellie Joseph, Benjamin J. Eckhardt, Chunki Fong, Shashi N. Kapadia, Terry T. K. Huang   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Long term surgical outcomes for infective endocarditis in people who inject drugs: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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, Robert E. Weiss, Sebastián Gamboa, Abel Gallegos, Alex A. T. Bui, Matthew B. Goetz, Steven Shoptaw, Raphael J. Landovitz   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Young people who inject drugs in Mozambique: should we emphasize them in the National Harm Reduction Plan?

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, Makini Boothe, Timothy Kellogg   +2 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, Handan Wand, Robert Kemp, Jude Bevan, Myf Briggs, Kate Patten, Sue Heard, Lisa Maher   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Injection into the jugular vein among people who inject drugs in the United Kingdom: Prevalence, associated factors and harms [PDF]

, 2017
Background: While people who inject drugs (PWID) typically use peripheral veins, some inject into their central veins, including the femoral and jugular veins.
Cullen, KJ, Hope, VD, Iversen, J, Maher, L, Nucbe, F, Parry, JV   +5 more
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Hepatitis C Virus Vaccines Among People Who Inject Drugs [PDF]

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2013
Most people who inject drugs (PWID) are infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), and PWID have the highest risk of HCV infection of any risk group. The incidence of HCV infection is 5%-25% per year, demonstrating continued need for HCV infection prevention in PWID.
Andrea L, Cox, David L, Thomas
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No significant HTLV seroprevalence in German people who inject drugs. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
Although human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV) is transmitted via the same routes as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), its worldwide seroprevalence differs drastically because HTLV is transmitted mainly via infected cells rather than free virus.
Oliver Hohn, Stephen Norley, Claudia Kücherer, Ali Bazarbachi, Hiba El Hajj, Ulrich Marcus, Ruth Zimmermann, Norbert Bannert   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source