نتایج جستجو برای: injecting drug user
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QUESTION: Do injection drug users describe needle fixation in their experiences of using needles? Design Qualitative study using semistructured interviews. Setting 4 drug treatment agencies in south Wales, UK. Participants 24 participants (mean age 33 y, 83% men) who were drug users (mean duration of illicit drug use 15.3 y, mean duration of injecting drugs 11.6 y). 62% of participants had inje...
background there is a high risk of tuberculosis (tb) infection among injecting drug users (idus). objectives this study aimed to determine the frequency of latent and active tb infection among idus. materials and methods in a cross-sectional study between 2008 and 2009, idus referred to the methadone maintenance treatment (mmt) centers in hamedan-iran, undergone tuberculin skin test (ppd; purif...
BACKGROUND The north-east Indian states of Manipur and Nagaland are two of the six high HIV prevalence states in the country, and the main route of HIV transmission is injecting drug use. Understanding the pathways to injecting drug use can facilitate early intervention with HIV prevention programs. While several studies of initiation into injecting drug use have been conducted in developed cou...
BACKGROUND & AIMS Hepatitis C virus antiviral treatment is effective for individual patients but few active injecting drug users are treated. We considered the utility of antiviral treatment for primary prevention of hepatitis C. METHODS A hepatitis C transmission model among injecting drug users was developed, incorporating treatment (62.5% average sustained viral response) with no retreatme...
OBJECTIVES To estimate the incidence of HIV and hepatitis C virus and risk factors for seroconversion among a cohort of injecting drug users. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Primary healthcare facility in central Sydney. SUBJECTS Injecting drug users tested for HIV-1 antibody (n=1179) and antibodies to hepatitis C virus (n=1078) from February 1992 to October 1995. MAIN OUTCOM...
People who use drugs are at higher risk of HIV: directly through the sharing of injecting equipment, indirectly through associated risk behavior, and physiologically through the substances' impact on the immune system. Drug users, especially people who inject drugs (PWID) are a bridge to the general population. The treatment of drug addiction and provision of harm reduction interventions have i...
BACKGROUND Injecting drug use is an increasingly important cause of HIV transmission in most countries worldwide, especially in eastern Europe, South America, and east and southeast Asia. Among people actively injecting drugs, provision of clean needles and opioid substitution reduce HIV-transmission. However, former injecting drug users (fIDUs) are often overlooked as a high risk group for HIV...
Hepatitis C virus subtype 3a (HCV-3a) originates from Asia and has spread widely among injecting drug users as well as other patient groups in industrialized countries. HCV subtype 3a infection remains highly prevalent and frequently transmitted in the population of intravenous drug users. The objective of this study was to understand better the mechanisms of the worldwide HCV-3a epidemics in d...
OBJECTIVE To analyze perceptions of risk, prevention strategies, their own relationship with drug use and that of their partner's, and future expectations among women living with HIV/AIDS whose partners are drug users. METHODS This is a qualitative study of women living with HIV/AIDS who receive specialist treatment in Sao Paulo Municipality. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with 1...
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