Background Injecting drug use is an increasingly important cause of HIV transmission in most countries worldwide. Our aim was to determine the prevalence of injecting drug use …
T Jerzyński, GV Stimson, H Shapiro, G Król - Harm reduction journal, 2021 - Springer
Background The combustion of tobacco is the main cause of tobacco-related morbidity and mortality. E-cigarettes are potentially disruptive innovations with considerable potential for …
Background. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–infected people who inject drugs (PWID) frequently encounter barriers accessing and remaining on antiretroviral therapy (ART) …
Drug use represents a significant burden to public health through disease, disability and social problems, and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in how to develop …
S Baral, F Sifakis, F Cleghorn, C Beyrer - PLoS medicine, 2007 - journals.plos.org
Background Recent reports of high HIV infection rates among men who have sex with men (MSM) from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the former Soviet Union (FSU) suggest high …
For more than two decades, HIV has infected millions of people worldwide each year through mucosal transmission. Our knowledge of how HIV secures a foothold at both the …
S Roy, J Ninkovic, S Banerjee, RG Charboneau… - Journal of Neuroimmune …, 2011 - Springer
Infection rate among intravenous drug users (IDU) is higher than the general public, and is the major cause of morbidity and hospitalization in the IDU population. Epidemiologic …
CD Wells, JP Cegielski, LJ Nelson… - The Journal of …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background. Multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) has emerged as a global epidemic, with∼ 425,000 new cases estimated to occur annually. The global human …
C Aceijas, T Rhodes - International journal of drug policy, 2007 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: In this paper, we review evidence of HCV prevalence among injecting drug users (IDUs) worldwide. METHODS: We undertook a desk-based review of both 'grey'and …