نتایج جستجو برای: injecting drug user

تعداد نتایج: 832876  

Journal: :Epidemiology and infection 2008
A J Sutton N J Gay W J Edmunds O N Gill

Since 2001 hepatitis B vaccination has been offered to prisoners on reception into prisons in England and Wales. However, short campaigns of vaccinating the entire population of individual prisons have achieved high vaccination coverage for limited periods, suggesting that short campaigns may be a preferable way of vaccinating prisoners. A model is used that describes the flow of prisoners thro...

Journal: :Harm Reduction Journal 2006
Emran M Razzaghi Afarin Rahimia Movaghar Traci Craig Green Kaveh Khoshnood

BACKGROUND In Iran, there are an estimated 200,000 injecting drug users (IDUs). Injecting drug use is a relatively new phenomenon for this country, where opium smoking was the predominant form of drug use for hundreds of years. As in many countries experiencing a rise in injecting drug use, HIV/AIDS in Iran is associated with the injection of drugs, accounting for transmission of more than two-...

Journal: :The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse 2014

Journal: :The International journal on drug policy 2017
Håvard Midgard Behzad Hajarizadeh Evan B Cunningham Brian Conway Markus Backmund Philip Bruggmann Julie Bruneau Stefan Bourgeois Adrian Dunlop Graham R Foster Margaret Hellard Geert Robaeys Maria C Thurnheer Martin Weltman Janaki Amin Philippa S Marks Sophie Quiene Gregory J Dore Olav Dalgard Jason Grebely

BACKGROUND The risk of hepatitis C virus (HCV) reinfection due to continued injecting risk behaviours might remain a barrier to HCV treatment among people who inject drugs. We aimed to evaluate changes in risk behaviours during and following HCV treatment among people with ongoing injecting drug use or receiving opioid substitution treatment (OST). METHODS ACTIVATE was an international multic...

Journal: :Emergency medicine journal : EMJ 2001
J M Ryan J Paul S Curtis N K Patel

Injecting drug users frequently use accident and emergency (A&E) departments to access emergency care for local and systemic infections. Clostridium novyi type A is a bacterium that has recently been associated with a number of fatalities among drug injecting addicts. The clinical course is described of a patient who attended an A&E department with septicaemia who was found at postmortem examin...

Journal: :Harm Reduction Journal 2009
Daliah I Heller Denise Paone Anne Siegler Adam Karpati

BACKGROUND Programmatic data from New York City syringe exchange programs suggest that many clients visit the programs infrequently and take few syringes per transaction, while separate survey data from individuals using these programs indicate that frequent injecting - at least daily - is common. Together, these data suggest a possible "syringe gap" between the number of injections performed b...

2001
J M Ryan J Paul S Curtis N K Patel

Injecting drug users frequently use accident and emergency (A&E) departments to access emergency care for local and systemic infections. Clostridium novyi type A is a bacterium that has recently been associated with a number of fatalities among drug injecting addicts. The clinical course is described of a patient who attended an A&E department with septicaemia who was found at postmortem examin...

Journal: :Indian journal of medical microbiology 2006
R Tiwari A Aggarwal P Devi

Drug addicts represent a high risk group for acquiring parenterally transmitted viral infections like human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV). It is very likely that an injecting drug user (IDU) infected with HIV will also be infected with HBV and/or HCV because of common high risk behaviours. Amritsar being border city, is a seat of international...

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