scholarly journals Predictors of Sharing Injection Equipment by HIV-Seropositive Injection Drug Users

2008 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl A Latkin ◽  
Amy S Buchanan ◽  
Lisa R Metsch ◽  
Kelly Knight ◽  
Mary H Latka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Injection Drug Users ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Injection Drug ◽  
Injection Equipment ◽  
Hiv Seropositive

Longitudinal Correlates of Health Care-Seeking Behaviors Among HIV-Seropositive Injection Drug Users

2007 ◽  
Vol 46 (Supplement 2) ◽  
pp. S120-S126 ◽  
Author(s):  
James D Wilkinson ◽  
Wei Zhao ◽  
Julia H Arnsten ◽  
Amy R Knowlton ◽  
Yuko Mizuno ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Injection Drug Users ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Injection Drug ◽  
Health Care Seeking ◽  
Care Seeking ◽  
Health Care Seeking Behaviors ◽  
Hiv Seropositive

556-S: Factors Associated with the use of ‘Street Methadone’ by HIV-Seropositive Injection Drug users in Four Us Cities

2005 ◽  
Vol 161 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S139-S139
Author(s):  
R. W Gern ◽  
L Eldred ◽  
M N Gourevitch ◽  
L R Metsch ◽  
C A Latkin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Injection Drug Users ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Injection Drug ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Us Cities ◽  
Hiv Seropositive

scholarly journals Hepatitis C virus modelled as an indirectly transmitted infection highlights the centrality of injection drug equipment in disease dynamics

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (158) ◽  
pp. 20190334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miles D. Miller-Dickson ◽  
Victor A. Meszaros ◽  
Salvador Almagro-Moreno ◽  
C. Brandon Ogbunugafor
Keyword(s):  
Hepatitis C Virus ◽  
Hepatitis C ◽  
Injection Drug Users ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Injection Drug ◽  
Disease Dynamics ◽  
Transmitted Infection ◽  
Injection Equipment ◽  
Treatment Measures ◽  
Environmental Reservoir

The hepatitis C virus (HCV) epidemic often occurs through the persistence of injection drug use. Mathematical models have been useful in understanding various aspects of the HCV epidemic, and especially, the importance of new treatment measures. Until now, however, few models have attempted to understand HCV in terms of an interaction between the various actors in an HCV outbreak—hosts, viruses and the needle injection equipment. In this study, we apply perspectives from the ecology of infectious diseases to model the transmission of HCV among a population of injection drug users. The products of our model suggest that modelling HCV as an indirectly transmitted infection—where the injection equipment serves as an environmental reservoir for infection—facilitates a more nuanced understanding of disease dynamics, by animating the underappreciated actors and interactions that frame disease. This lens may allow us to understand how certain public health interventions (e.g. needle exchange programmes) influence HCV epidemics. Lastly, we argue that this model is of particular importance in the light of the modern opioid epidemic, which has already been associated with outbreaks of viral diseases.

Participantsʼ Descriptions of Social Support Within a Multisite Intervention for HIV-Seropositive Injection Drug Users (INSPIRE)

2007 ◽  
Vol 46 (Supplement 2) ◽  
pp. S55-S63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon Gwin Mitchell ◽  
Lorece V Edwards ◽  
Sonja Mackenzie ◽  
Amy R Knowlton ◽  
Eduardo E Valverde ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Injection Drug Users ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Injection Drug ◽  
Hiv Seropositive

Adherence and plasma HIV RNA response to antiretroviral therapy among HIV-seropositive injection drug users in a Canadian setting

AIDS Care ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 980-987 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seonaid Nolan ◽  
M-J. Milloy ◽  
Ruth Zhang ◽  
Thomas Kerr ◽  
Robert S. Hogg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Antiretroviral Therapy ◽  
Injection Drug Users ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Injection Drug ◽  
Hiv Rna ◽  
Canadian Setting ◽  
Hiv Seropositive
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