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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"injection drug use"”.
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Blood borne infections and duration of injection drug use among young, newly initiated injection drug users
… to examine select baseline characteristics and drug use and sexual behaviors by duration of injection drug use among young, newly initiated injection drug users (IDUs) to better understand factors associated with risk of infection during the early stage of an injection drug users' career. This …
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Measurement of the Association Between Mean Platelet Volume and Embolic Complications of Infectious Endocarditis
… to date and become the first to assess MPV in injection drug use associated endocarditis cases (IDU-IE). Methods: Patient charts from 1/1/2004 - 9/31/2015 were manually reviewed. Only those who reported IDU in the 3 months prior to admission were classified as IDU - IE . IDU - IE cases were …
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Tuberculosis in San Bernardino County, 1993-2004 : Lifestyle and Environmental Factors
… San Bernardino had a higher proportion of non-injection drug using TB cases, compared with California in 1996. Further comparisons were made along country of birth between TB cases in San Bernardino County from 1993 to 2004. Notable differences were observed for injection drug use, non …
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Relationship dependencies and autonomy as mediation pathways of incarceration and HIV risk outcomes among low income drug involved adults
… dependencies (reliance on a partner for drug and non-drug related expenses) and autonomy (personal access to resources including housing, employment and educational opportunities, relationship dependency) as a pathway linking prior incarceration and HIV risk behavior. An integrated theory …
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Do condom and needle exchange provision in prisons reduce risky behavior and HIV transmission? A systematic literature review
… is linked to ongoing high risk behavior such as injection drug use associated with sharing of injecting equipment, unsafe sexual activity and tattooing. However, HIV prevention initiatives involving condom and needle exchange programs have not been widely implemented in prisons due to the …
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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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Modeling the Effects of Drugs of Abuse on HIV Infections with Two Viral Species
Injection drug use is one of the greatest risk factors associated with contracting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and drug abusers infected with HIV suffer from a higher viral load and rapid pathogenesis. Replication of HIV may result in a large number of mutant viruses that can escape …
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'No easy fix': The Supervised Injection Site Debate in Canada
Supervised injection sites (SISs) have become subject to much political and social controversy in Canada since the late 1990s. Since the implementation of North America’s first SIS, Insite, in 2003 in Vancouver, the controversy has reached new levels. Despite the increasing evidence base available …
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Outcomes of Beta-Hemolytic Streptococcal Necrotizing Skin and Soft Tissue Infections and the Impact of Clindamycin Resistance
… controlling for age, transfer status, and injection drug use-related etiology. Results: Of 445 NSTI identified, 85% had surgical wound cultures within 48 hours of admission. 31% grew beta-hemolytic streptococci, and clindamycin resistance was observed in 32% of patients. The presence of …
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A Tale of Two Risks: The Framing of HIV Transmission Risk in Health Brochures
… transmission is discussed within these commonly used educational materials. This study evaluated the framing of HIV transmission risk in 31 HIV-related health brochures gathered from county health departments in the Greater Kansas City Area. The frame analysis revealed two primary frames used to …
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Sexual behaviours among a cohort of street-involved youth in Vancouver
… elicited information regarding sexual activity, injection and non-injection drug use, addiction treatment experience, encounters with police and security guards, and health service utilization. Environmental and structural correlates of number of recent sex partners were identified using …
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Protection from HCV infection – Identification of mechanisms of resistance to HCV infection in exposed uninfected injection drug users.
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a leading cause of 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 …
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An Assessment of the HIV Prevention Needs of Injection Drug Users in Montana
… needs of individuals living in Montana who use injection drugs (IDUs). Gaps between prevention needs and services were identified and recommendations for overcoming the barriers to accessing and implementing treatment needs and services were offered.<br> A qualitative case study approach was …
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An Assessment of the HIV Prevention Needs of Injection Drug Users in Montana
… needs of individuals living in Montana who use injection drugs (IDUs). Gaps between prevention needs and services were identified and recommendations for overcoming the barriers to accessing and implementing treatment needs and services were offered.<br> A qualitative case study approach was …
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Curbing the Epidemic: Evolving Public Health Practices and Implications of Prenatal Syphilis Screening Patterns in Ontario, Canada
… health data. Modified Poisson regression was used to assess factors associated with no or late (third trimester or at delivery) initial screening. Results: Twenty-eight of 34 PHUs responded to the survey; by December 2023, 10 PHUs (36%) had recommended universal prenatal syphilis rescreening. …
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Governmentality/Animacy/Mythology: A Biopolitical and Rhetorical Mosaic of HIV Stigma in a Time of PrEP-aration
… HIV virus, modes of transmission (anal sex and injection drug use), and a pervasive belief that HIV and AIDS remains a gay white man's disease despite increasing the increasing burdens HIV holds on communities of color where the virus does not discriminate by sexuality.</p> <p>While much …
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Service users' perceptions of the relationships between cigarette use and recovery from substance use disorders
… on the relationship between cigarette use and recovery from substance use disorders (SUDs) is contradictory and limited to studies conducted in high-income countries characterised by a predominance of injection drug use. In South Africa, a low-and-middleincome country where drugs are …
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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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An Ethical Analysis of Safe Supply
… is in a bag sold as heroin or “dope”. Illicit drug use has been historically dealt with as a crime rather than a public health issue in the United States. Recently, harm reduction has been offered as an alternative to this punitive approach. Harm reduction is a set of practical strategies and …
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Structure of Narratives: Applying Propp's folktale morphology to entertainment-education films
… that Propp's morphological framework serves as a useful analytical tool that would withstand the rigors of empiricism. The characters and functions in the films were interpreted deductively using Propp's categories. However, since Propp developed his categories based on oral folklores and before a …
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