Developing a community HCV service: project ITTREAT (integrated community-based test – stage – TREAT) service for people who inject drugs

HCV in people who inject drugs: a neglected epidemic.

Despite the serious health implications of hepatitis C virus (HCV), especially in the context of concurrent HIV infection, its prevention and management has not been a national health priority in India. With the advent of highly effi cacious direct acting antiviral drugs for HCV that can be administered orally once daily, and activism around the reduction of treatment costs, HCV treatment might...

Burden of Liver Disease among Community-Based People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) in Chennai, India

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE We characterize the burden of liver disease in a cohort of PWID in Chennai, India, with a high prevalence of HCV. MATERIALS AND METHODS 1,042 PWID were sampled through community outreach in Chennai. Participants underwent fasting blood draw, questionnaire and an examination that included liver stiffness assessment using transient elastography (Fibroscan) and assessmen...

Service integration: opportunities to expand access to antiretroviral therapy for people who inject drugs in Tanzania

Received 26 March 2015; Revised 12 June 2015; Accepted 17 June 2015; Published 21 July 2015 Copyright: – 2015 Lambdin BH et al; licensee International AIDS Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reprodu...

Developing AIDS community service consortia.

Groin injecting among a community-recruited sample of people who inject drugs in Thailand

BACKGROUND Use of the femoral vein for the injection of illicit drugs (i.e. groin injecting) has been linked to various health-related harms, including deep vein thrombosis. However, little is known about the prevalence of groin injecting and factors that predict this practice among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Thailand. We sought to investigate the prevalence and factors associated with g...