Category Archives: People who use drugs
Social and structural factors associated with HIV disease progression among illicit drug users: A systematic review
OBJECTIVE: To systematically review factors associated with HIV disease progression among illicit drug users, focusing on exposures exogenous to individuals that likely shape access and adherence to HIV treatment. DESIGN:...
Behavioral interventions to reduce HIV-related sexual risk behavior: review and synthesis of meta-analytic evidence
Over the past 25 years, scores of behavioral interventions to reduce HIV-related sexual risk behavior have been developed and evaluated. The purpose of the current study was to synthesize what...
Outreach-based HIV prevention for injecting drug users: A review of published outcome data
OBJECTIVE: Over the past decade, a body of observational research has accrued about the effects of outreach-based human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) interventions for drug users. The authors reviewed the findings...
HIV prevalence among female sex workers, drug users and men who have sex with men in Brazil: A systematic review and meta-analysis
BACKGROUND:The Brazilian response towards AIDS epidemic is well known, but the absence of a systematic review of vulnerable populations – men who have sex with men (MSM), female sex workers...
Mortality among people who inject drugs: A systematic review and meta-analysis
OBJECTIVE: To systematically review cohort studies of mortality among people who inject drugs, examine mortality rates and causes of death in this group, and identify participant- and study-level variables associated...
Meta-analysis of the relationship between HIV infection and risk for depressive disorders
Objective: Each of 10 published studies investigating the relationship between HIV infection and risk for depressive disorders concluded that HIV-positive individuais are at no greater risk for depression than comparable...
A review of research on residential programs for people with severe mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders
Substance use disorder is the most common and clinically significant co-morbidity among clients with severe mental illnesses, associated with poor treatment response, homelessness and other adverse outcomes. Residential programs for...
The effectiveness of needle exchange programmes in modifying hiv-related outcomes: A systematic review of the evidence, 1997-1999
Objective: To examine the effectiveness of needle exchange programs (NEPs) in modifying HIVrelated outcomes in injection drug users (IDUs). Methods: On-line computer searches of six electronic databases, hand searches of...