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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"People who inject drugs"”.
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Modelling the spread of hepatitis C virus amongst people who inject drugs
… an ever-growing population of individuals that inject themselves with drugs. These individuals significantly increase the rate of infection and spread of the disease. In 2006 approximately 50,000 native Scottish citizens were positive for the HCV virus, with the largest group of these …
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People who inject drugs and HIV transmission in Indonesia: A biopsychosocial approach
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Incremental Cost of Hepatitis C Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment among People Who Inject Drugs in Kenya
… and preventable deaths, if left untreated. Among people who use injecting drugs, the prevalence of HCV is 52% globally and 13-40% in Kenya, which is higher than in the general population, where the prevalence is 0.7% globally and 0.9% in Kenya. Injectable drug use accounts for 1 in 3 HCV related …
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Hepatitis C Diagnosis and Treatment, Impact on Engagement and Behaviour of People Who Inject Drugs, the Hooked C project
Hepatitis C (HCV) virus affects around 71 million people globally, with people who inject drugs (PWID) the most at-risk population for acquisition of the virus. There is emerging evidence that HCV treatment engagement is associated with change in drug behaviours and reduced risk of mortality among …
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Informing the treatment and prevention response for HIV among people who inject drugs: a case study of South Africa
… is a major public health concern globally, while people who inject drugs (PWID) have a heightened risk of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and are also thought to have poorer HIV treatment outcomes. In South Africa, the provision of HIV treatment and prevention interventions for PWID …
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Mathematical modelling to investigate the impact of awareness programs on the spread of HIV/AIDS amongst people who inject drugs (PWIDs)
Injecting drug use is a growing risk factor for the transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the majority of countries, and the high prevalence of HIV among many populations of persons who inject drugs (PWIDs) presents a huge global …
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Governing through Health: The Biomedical and Public Health Management of Drug Using Bodies
… 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 health care practitioners who provide care for drug-using patients, and 4 researchers of drug use, the governmentality of a public …
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Integrating Health Psychology into Hepatitis C treatment: a self-efficAcy intervention to reDuce injecting risk behAviour and hePatitis c reinfecTion rates (ADAPT)
… carried out to inform the latter two.<br/><br/>Injecting behaviour in people who inject drugs (PWID) is a significant risk factor for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Self-efficacy has been shown to be associated with injecting risk behaviour. The risk of HCV re-infection in people who inject …
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<b>Integrating Qualitative Inquiry and Cost-Effectiveness Modeling to Inform Equitable Hepatitis C Care Implementation</b>
… C virus (HCV) elimination strategies among people who inject drugs (PWID) in rural and local public health settings. Using economic-epidemiological modeling, the research assesses interventions including expanded testing and treatment, syringe services programs (SSPs), medication assisted …
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The Care of Hospitalized Intravenous Drug Users in 2019
People who inject drugs, particularly opioids, are a growing population, especially in North Philadelphia. This population is at high risk for medical complications that require hospitalization. While hospitalized, this population poses unique challenges to the healthcare system, including high …
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Safe Injection Facilities in the Tenderloin: Starting with Operational Plans
<p>There are over 90 safe injection facilities (SIFs) in at least 11 countries around the world, except in the United States. SIFs are spaces where people who inject drugs (PWID) can bring their pre-obtained drugs in a hygienic space and use them under supervision. The goal of these sites is to …
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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 …
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Modelling Hepatitis C virus infection and treatment impact through serological surveillance data
… in the United Kingdom (UK), particularly among people who inject drugs (PWID), who account for the majority of new and existing infections. Despite the availability of highly effective direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapies and a national commitment to elimination, transmission continues in key …
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Exposing the gaps: HIV prevention perspectives, use, and preferences among priority populations in Seattle, Washington
… remains high among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM), transgender persons, and people who inject drugs (PWID). Biomedical HIV prevention, including daily oral and long-acting injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), has the potential to address these disparities but …
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Hepatitis C virus infection in patients receiving opiate substitution therapy in Sweden.
… a blood borne virus effectively spread through injection practices. Consequently, people who inject drugs (PWID) are at the center of the current HCV epidemic in industrialized countries, with regards both to prevalence and incidence. Through progressive liver fibrosis, chronic HCV infection …
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Experiences of injecting drugs, alcohol use and hepatitis C in Merseyside: Barriers to hepatitis C support
… the liver. In the UK, approximately 214,000 people are infected with the hepatitis C virus. Hepatitis C disproportionally affects marginalised populations and in the UK sharing equipment used to inject drugs is the main risk factor for hepatitis C infection. Despite there being treatments for …
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Public health impact and implications of the use of anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) and associated drugs amongst the male general population.
… programmes (NSPs) indicate growing numbers of people who inject AAS and associated drugs. Often portrayed in the media as a homogenous group of young male, working class men, a growing body of research indicates a much more diverse population in relation to demographic characteristics and …