Category Archives: People who use drugs

What do we know about older adults and HIV? A review of social and behavioral literature

2011

The fastest growing segment of the United States HIV population is people aged 50 and older. This heterogeneous group includes people with diverse pathways into HIV positive status in later...

Racial/ethnic disparities in HIV infection among people who inject drugs: An international systematic review and meta-analysis

2012

AIMS: The Ethnic Minority Meta-Analysis (EMMA) aims to assess racial/ethnic disparities in HIV infection among people who inject drugs (PWID) across various countries. This is the first report of the...

Towards universal voluntary HIV testing and counselling: A systematic review and meta-analysis of community-based approaches

2013

BACKGROUND: Effective national and global HIV responses require a significant expansion of HIV testing and counselling (HTC) to expand access to prevention and care. Facility-based HTC, while essential, is unlikely...

HIV prevention, treatment, and care services for people who inject drugs: A systematic review of global, regional, and national coverage

2010

Background: Previous reviews have examined the existence of HIV prevention, treatment, and care services for injecting drug users (IDUs) worldwide, but they did not quantify the scale of coverage. We...

Effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in preventing HIV risk behaviour in injecting drug users

1998

OBJECTIVE: To consider evidence for the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in reducing the risk of infection with HIV of injecting drug users. METHOD: We reviewed 19 published studies of the...

Psychosocial interventions for the reduction of injection and sexual risk behaviour for preventing HIV in drug users

2010

BACKGROUND: Drug users (including both injection drug users and crack cocaine users), are at high levels of risk for contracting HIV. Therefore it is important to reduce the injection and/or...

HIV prevalence amongst injecting drug users in Iran: A systematic review of studies conducted during the decade 1998-2007

2012

Background and objectives: Iran is a country with low HIV prevalence in the general population and concentrated prevalence amongst injecting drug users (IDUs). Various studies have been carried out on...

Drug abuse treatment as an HIV prevention strategy: A review

2000

We review drug abuse treatment as a means of preventing infection with HIV. Thirty-three studies, with an aggregate of over seventeen thousand subjects, were published in peer-reviewed journals from 1988–1998....

A systematic review of HIV testing among Canadian populations

2014

OBJECTIVE: Regular HIV testing and early detection leads to timely treatment. Appropriate treatment and care can prevent disease progression in the individual and prevent onwards transmission within the community. This...

HIV prevalence in China: Integration of surveillance data and a systematic review

2013

BACKGROUND: Asian HIV epidemics are concentrated among particular behavioural groups, but large variations exist in epidemic types, timing, and geographical spread between countries and within countries, especially in China. We...

Uncovering the epidemic of HIV among men who have sex with men in Central Asia

2013

BACKGROUND: Research among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Central Asia has described same sex behavior among male PWID and may be associated with HIV and other infections. Little is...

Global epidemiology of injecting drug use and HIV among people who inject drugs: A systematic review

2008

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 among individuals aged...

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