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Drug-Drug Interactions in the Treatment of HCV Among People Who Inject Drugs [PDF]

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2013
Boceprevir and telaprevir are inhibitors and substrates of the cytochrome P450 3A4 family. With the use of these HCV protease inhibitors as part of standard therapy for chronic hepatitis C genotype 1 infection, drug-drug interactions with multiple medications being inductors, inhibitors, or substrates of cytochrome P450 3A4 can be expected.
Stefan, Mauss, Hartwig, Klinker
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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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Another frontier for harm reduction: contraceptive needs of females who inject drugs in Estonia, a cross-sectional study

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, Mait Raag, Sigrid Vorobjov, Don Des Jarlais   +3 more
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Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention among people who inject drugs: a global mapping of service delivery

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Background The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for all people at substantial risk of HIV as part of combination prevention.
Graham Shaw, Robin Schaefer, Heather-Marie A Schmidt, Annie Madden, Judy Chang, Antons Mozalevskis, Busisiwe Msimanga-Radebe, Nabeel Mangadan Konath, Annette Verster, Rachel Baggaley, Michelle Rodolph, Virginia Macdonald   +11 more
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A single site study to investigate the current prevalence of anti‐hepatitis C virus antibody among substance use disorder patients in Hiroshima—Insufficient testing and diagnosis

Neuropsychopharmacology Reports, 2023
Aims Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among drug users presents an important public health problem; however, little recognition and few approaches to address this issue in Japan.
Ariyuki Kagaya, Yuko Nagaoki, Satomi Shimura, Katsuyoshi Kawana, Kazuaki Chayama   +4 more
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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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A descriptive study of hepatitis C in people who inject drugs

Indian Journal of Medical Research, 2023
Background & objectives: The seroprevalence of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) in general population is higher than that of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in India. People who inject drugs (PWIDs) constitute a high-risk group for all blood-borne infections.
Shivaprakash, Prakrithi, Patel, Vinit, Shadakshari, Darshan, Verma, Rahul, Shukla, Lekhansh, Mahadevan, Jayant, Kandasamy, Arun, Chand, Prabhat Kumar, Benegal, Vivek, Sethuraman, Lakshmanan, Sharma, Priyamvada, Murthy, Pratima   +11 more
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Healthcare avoidance by people who inject drugs in Bangkok, Thailand [PDF]

Journal of Public Health, 2015
Although people who inject drugs (IDU) often contend with various health-related harms, timely access to health care among this population remains low. We sought to identify specific individual, social and structural factors constraining healthcare access among IDU in Bangkok, Thailand.Data were derived from a community-recruited sample of IDU ...
A J, Heath, T, Kerr, L, Ti, K, Kaplan, P, Suwannawong, E, Wood, K, Hayashi   +6 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
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Is the promise of methadone Kenya's solution to managing HIV and addiction? A mixed-method mathematical modelling and qualitative study. [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Promoted globally as an evidence-based intervention in the prevention of HIV and treatment of heroin addiction among people who inject drugs (PWID), opioid substitution treatment (OST) can help control emerging HIV epidemics ...
Guise, Andy, Guise, Andy; id_orcid, Platt, Lucy, Cleland, Charles, Strathdee, Steffanie, Ngugi, Elizabeth, Kurth, Ann, Vickerman, Peter, Rhodes, Tim, Ndimbii, James   +9 more
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