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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Injection drug user"”.
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Governing through Health: The Biomedical and Public Health Management of Drug Using Bodies
<p>Focused on the intersection of health, drug use, and poverty, this dissertation closely examines the use of discursive registers in the conceptualization of health among low-income people who inject drugs in New York City. Using qualitative in-depth interviews with 40 people who inject drugs, 13 …
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Stigma in Women Living with HIV in Jakarta, Indonesia
… to live with the consequences of marrying an injection drug user. Seeing women as a victim and realizing nothing could change the reality of their infection caused women to find acceptance and support in their husband's family. The women reported that their children often suffered from the …
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Protection from HCV infection – Identification of mechanisms of resistance to HCV infection in exposed uninfected injection drug users.
… chronic liver disease. In the developed world, injection drug use (IDU) through sharing of infected needles and other paraphernalia remains the principal risk factor for HCV transmission. Effective but expensive treatment is now possible but there remains a pressing need for a vaccine. A …