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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"injecting drug use"”.
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Social Welfare Systems and their Effects on Adolescent Violence, Injecting Drug Use, and Negative Health Behaviors
<p>Youth and young adults who are injection drug users (IDU’s) often live and survive in physical and emotional environments that are associated with negative behaviors and outcomes. Past environmental and social factors, such as participation in social welfare systems or institutionalization in …
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Role of the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre in reducing injecting drug use-related harm: evaluating accessibility, utilisation, coverage and selected health impacts
Drug Consumption Rooms (DCRs), where injecting drug users (IDUs) can use pre-obtained drugs in a hygienic and professionally supervised low threshold setting, aim to engage high risk IDUs, reduce public drug use, injecting-related morbidity and mortality, and improve access to drug treatment. This …
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The Effects of Place on Health Risk: A Qualitative Study of Micro-Injecting Environments
… between place and health-risk in the context of injecting drug use; with specific focus upon such practice that is located within public and semi-public locations. The research followed phenomenological and ethnographic traditions; complemented by interview data and the exploratory application of …
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An exploration of a new heroin outbreak
… Government to locally elected representatives. Drug policy was included within this transfer of executive authority. The decrease in political conflict and resolution of the long-standing problems associated with the sectarian and divided nature of Northern Ireland culture, has been accompanied …
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A Model for HIV/AIDS Risk Behaviors of Students in Armenia
… transmitted infections (STI), prostitution, and injecting drug use, and the alarming incidence rates in neighboring countries amplify its risk for a national epidemic.</p> <p>The goals of this study were to 1) determine the prevalence of sexual risk behaviors of students from five higher …
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National HIV/AIDS second generation surveillance on drug users in 2005 in China
… associated with HIV-1 infection among drug users in China based on the national second generation surveillance on drug users in 2005. Methods: National HIV/AIDS second generation surveillance is a routine work in China; the data on drug users in 2005 were analysed; HIV-1 antibody status …
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Hepatitis C Diagnosis and Treatment, Impact on Engagement and Behaviour of People Who Inject Drugs, the Hooked C project
… 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 PWID. A systematic review was conducted …
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'It's All Very Blurry' : Exploring the Messy Realities of Living with Hepatitis C.
… route of transmission in the UK is via sharing injecting drug use equipment. The negative perceptions which accompany this, coupled with the hidden nature of the illness and the slow course of the infection, have enacted and materialised hepatitis C as a low priority for services and policy. …
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HIV and other sexually transmissible infections in a cohort of HIV negative homosexual men in Sydney
… HCV infection was strongly associated with injecting drug use (OR 60.43, 95% CI 6.70-544.79), and sexual transmission was not demonstrated in this cohort. There was a nearly 40 fold increase in syphilis notifications in inner Sydney between 1999 and 2004. The stable incidence of 0.6% per …
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Hepatitis B and hepatitis C virus in an antenatal population : an epidemiological study
… prior to their antenatal test. A history of injecting drug use and residing with a HCV positive person were significantly associated with HCV infection in multivariate analyses. HBV testing was conducted in 468 (99.6%) of women, and the overall prevalence was 2%. Risk factors identified were …
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A Decade of Hepatitis C at the UCT/GSH Liver Clinic in the Pre-DAA era
… product exposure prior to 1992 (32.8%) and injecting drug use (IDU) 17.6%, while 30.3%, had no clear risk factor identifiable. Genotypes (GT) 1 to 5 were observed with GT-1 (34.9%) predominating. In those biopsied, (n=90), 30% ≥F3 fibrosis, with 15.6% cirrhotic. With IL28B polymorphisms, …
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Hepatitis C prevalence in HIV infected heterosexual men and men who have sex with men
… In terms of risk, MSM were more likely to have used drugs (54.4% vs. 30.2%, p<0.001) and to have used all five modes of drugs administration (13% of MSM vs. 0.5% of non- MSM for injected drugs, 36.1% vs. 2.3% inhaled, 10% vs. 0% for the rectal route, 48.1% vs. 28.8% for smoked and 27.4% vs. 2.3% …
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Modelling the hepatitis C virus disease burden among injecting drug users in Scotland
A forward projection model was used to estimate the numbers of, both current and former, IDUs who acquired HCV infection and progressed to mild, moderate and severe HCV disease in Glasgow and Scotland between 1960 and 2030. The model was developed initially for Glasgow because more epidemiological …
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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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Mouri Tu, Mouri Moko, Mouri Ora! Moko as a wellbeing strategy
… services, and harm reduction measures related to injecting drug use. The present research was undertaken with the understanding that development of effective responses of this kind among Indigenous people would benefit from a better understanding of the social and cultural factors that might …
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Experiences of injecting drugs, alcohol use and hepatitis C in Merseyside: Barriers to hepatitis C support
… 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 hepatitis C, many do not access it or indeed get tested, leading to deaths from complications of hepatitis C such as end stage liver disease …
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The spread of HIV in Europe: Hidden epidemics and other barriers to universal access to prevention, treatment and care
… sex with men, and in eastern Europe among male injecting drug users – and increasingly their sexual partners. This doctoral research investigates several aspects of HIV epidemiology and treatment in the European Region that inform the global commitment to provide universal access to HIV …