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Source: Ospina-Escobar, A., & Juárez, F. (2019). Gender matters? How does gender shape risk environment for syringe sharing among people who inject drugs in northern Mexico. Results from a cross-sectional survey. Salud Mental, 42(4), 165-172. doi:https://doi.org/10.17711/SM.0185-3325.2019.022...

Gender matters How does gender shape risk environment for syringe sharing among people who inject drugs in northern Mexico. Results from a cross-sectional survey.pdf

Source: Bagchi, A. D. (2020). A Structural Competency Curriculum for Primary Care Providers to Address the Opioid Use Disorder, HIV, and Hepatitis C Syndemic. Frontiers in Public Health, 8, 210. The interrelated epidemics of opioid use disorder (OUD) and HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection...

A Structural Competency Curriculum for Primary Care Providers to Address the Opioid Use Disorder, HIV, and Hepatitis C Syndemic.pdf

Part of the Integrated Care Series, Dr. Deepa Rao presents socio-behavioral and mental health-related barriers to engagement in care for people with HIV. She will also discuss research to develop stigma reduction interventions to help people with HIV achieve HIV viral suppression and improve their...

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Source: Magidson, J.F., Joska, J.A., Myers, B. et al. Project Khanya: a randomized, hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of a peer-delivered behavioral intervention for ART adherence and substance use in Cape Town, South Africa. Implement Sci Commun 1, 23 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s43058...

Project Khanya a randomized, hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of a peer-delivered behavioral intervention for ART adherence and substance use in Cape Town, South Africa.pdf

Source: Dickson-Gomez, J., Bodnar, G., Petroll, A., Johnson, K., & Glasman, L. (2015). HIV Treatment for Alcohol and Non-Injection Drug Users in El Salvador. Qualitative health research, 25(12), 1719–1732. doi:10.1177/1049732314568322 Abstract Since the mid-1990s, many developing countries have...

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In this presentation, Dr. Valerie Earnshaw provides a cross-cutting conceptual overview of stigma, identifies targets for stigma measurement, recommends methodological approaches for stigma research, and reviews the intervention toolkit to address stigma. She draws on examples from her own and...

Source: Magís-Rodríguez, C., Marín-Navarrete, R., & García-Juárez, I. (2019). A new challenge for the Mexican health system: hepatitis C in people who inject drugs. Salud Mental, 42(4), 147-148. doi:https://doi.org/10.17711/SM.0185-3325.2019.019 Abstract Injecting-drug use is present in 179 of 206...

A new challenge for the Mexican health system hepatitis C in people who inject drugs.pdf

Source: Zhang, L., Zou, X., Xu, Y., Medland, N., Deng, L., Liu, Y., ... & Ling, L. (2019). The decade-long Chinese methadone maintenance therapy has yield large population and economic benefits for drug users in reducing harm, HIV and HCV disease burden. Frontiers in Public Health, 7, 327...

The Decade-Long Chinese Methadone Maintenance Therapy Yields Large Population and Economic Benefits for Drug Users in Reducing Harm, HIV and HCV Disease Burden.pdf

Source: Bórquez, A., Abramovitz, D., Cepeda, J., Rangel, G., González-Zúñiga, P., Martin, N., Magis-Rodríguez, C., & Strathdee, S. (2019). Syringe sharing among people who inject drugs in Tijuana: before and after the Global Fund. Salud Mental, 42(4), 149-156. doi:https://doi.org/10.17711/SM.0185...

Syringe sharing among people who inject drugs in Tijuana before and after the Global Fund.pdf

Abstract Background Having HIV/AIDS has been associated with a higher prevalence of smoking. Moreover, evidence suggests that people with HIV/AIDS who smoke have poorer treatment and survival outcomes. The HIV–smoking relationship is understudied in sub-Saharan Africa, where tobacco use patterns and...

Smoking and HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa: A 25-Country Analysis of the Demographic…

Source: Kaida et al. Harm Reduction Journal (2019) 16:47 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-019-0309-3 Abstract Background A community-based research (CBR) approach is critical to redressing the exclusion of women—particularly, traditionally marginalized women including those who use substances—from HIV...

Operationalizing community-based research principles within epidemiological studies by, with, and for women living with HIV.pdf

The authors concluded: "In sum, this drug user population in Guatemala City is at heightened risk of HIV, although some of the risk results from overlap with vulnerability experienced as members of groups at heightened risk, such as gay/bisexual men, transgender women, and sex workers. Future HIV...

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Gender matters? How does gender shape risk environment for syringe sharing among people who inject drugs in northern Mexico. Results from a cross-sectional survey

A Structural Competency Curriculum for Primary Care Providers to Address the Opioid Use Disorder, HIV, and Hepatitis C Syndemic

Stigma Reduction Among People with HIV to Improve Health Outcomes

Tobacco addiction and HIV infection: toward the implementation of cessation programs. ANRS CO3 Aquitaine Cohort.

Project Khanya: a randomized, hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of a peer-delivered behavioral intervention for ART adherence and substance use in Cape Town, South Africa

HIV Treatment for Alcohol and Non-Injection Drug Users in El Salvador

Methods for Understanding and Addressing Stigma To Prevent Common Risk Factors for Disease (MtG)

A new challenge for the Mexican health system: hepatitis C in people who inject drugs

The Decade-Long Chinese Methadone Maintenance Therapy Yields Large Population and Economic Benefits for Drug Users in Reducing Harm, HIV and HCV Disease Burden

Syringe sharing among people who inject drugs in Tijuana: before and after the Global Fund

Smoking and HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa: A 25-Country Analysis of the Demographic Health Surveys

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Drug Consumption Patterns, Sexual Behavior and HIV Risk Among Low-Income Drug Users in Guatemala City

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