PWID - People Who Inject Drugs
Costs and Impact on HIV Transmission of a Switch from a Criminalisation to a Public Health Approach to Injecting Drug Use in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: A Modelling Analysis
Authors: Zoe Ward, Jack Stone, Chrissy Bishop, Viktor Ivakin, Ksenia Eritsyan, Anna Deryabina, Andrea Low, Javier Cepeda, Sherrie L Kelly, Robert Heimer, Robert Cook, Frederick L Altice, Taylor Litz, Assel Terlikbayeva, Nabila El-Bassel, Denis Havarkov, Alena Fisenka,...
Association of Sociodemographic Factors with Needle Sharing and Number of Sex Partners Among People who Inject Drugs in Egypt
Sakia Anwar, Ehab El Kharrat, Atef Bakhoum, Wafaa M. El-Sadr, Tiffany G. Harris Abstract People who inject drugs (PWID) are at a high risk for HIV. We conducted an evaluation of socio-demographic factors associated with injecting and sexual behaviour among PWID who...
Special Webinar (Archived Recording) – The Impact of COVID-19 on the Opioid Crisis
With the emergence of COVID-19, people already struggling with addiction are increasingly isolated, laid off, and overwhelmed with anxiety. If the COVID-19 pandemic is an earthquake, the aftershocks felt for those struggling with substance abuse have only just begun....
