Background Experience of childhood maltreatment (CM) is a risk factor for opioid use
disorder (OUD). CM is also associated with comorbid mental disorders and poor treatment …

Importance Mortality among people with opioid dependence is higher than that of the
general population. Opioid agonist treatment (OAT) is an effective treatment for opioid …

HIV prevention strategies and services need to address the unique and multilevel drivers
that increase the vulnerabilities to HIV, HCV, and STIs among women who use drugs …

Nigerian drug lords in UK prisons, khat-chewing Somali pirates hijacking Western ships,
crystal meth-smoking gangs controlling South Africa's streets, and narco-traffickers …

Background High quality care is crucial in ensuring that women and newborns receive
interventions that may prevent and treat birth-related complications. As facility deliveries …

Illicit drug control has been on the global agenda for more than a century. Infections have
long been recognized as one of the most serious complications of drug abuse. Drug users …

Objective: HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa increasingly occurs among people who inject
drugs (PWID). Kenya is one of the first to implement a national needle and syringe program …

HIV research has identified approaches that can be combined to be more effective in
transmission reduction than any 1 modality alone: delayed adolescent sexual debut, mutual …

Introduction Current estimates suggest an HIV prevalence of 42% among people who inject
drugs (PWIDs) in Dar es Salaam, while HIV prevalence is estimated to be 8.8% among the …

Abstract Purpose of Review Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a global phenomenon and is on
the rise in Africa, denoting a shift from historical patterns of drug transport to internal …