Category Archives: People who use drugs

A review of HIV interventions for at-risk women

1997

This paper reviews published reports on primary prevention of sexual transmission of HIV with women from the beginning of the AIDS epidemic through March 1996. All reviewed interventions were conducted...

Risk of resistance to highly active antiretroviral therapy among HIV-positive injecting drug users: A meta-analysis

2010

Although highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is an effective treatment for HIV, many physicians withhold this treatment from HIV-positive injecting drug users (IDUs) because of fears of non-adherence and consequent...

Tuberculosis, injecting drug use and integrated HIV-TB care: A review of the literature

2013

BACKGROUND: People who inject drugs (PWID) are at increased risk of tuberculosis (TB) and reduced retention in treatment. There is a need to document strategies for integrated delivery of HIV,...

Towards an understanding of sexual risk behavior in people living with HIV: A review of social, psychological, and medical findings

2002

No abstract.

Risk of window period HIV infection in high infectious risk donors: Systematic review and meta-analysis

2011

The OPTN defines high risk donors (HRDs), colloquially known as ‘CDC high risk donors’, as those thought to carry an increased risk of HIV window period (WP) infection prior to...

Social and structural factors associated with HIV disease progression among illicit drug users: A systematic review

2012

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

2008

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

1998

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

2010

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

2013

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

2001

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...

People who use drugs, HIV, and human rights

2010

We reviewed evidence from more than 900 studies and reports on the link between human rights abuses experienced by people who use drugs and vulnerability to HIV infection and access...

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