Search Results - "Des Jarlais, C"

Adapted "Break the Cycle for Avant Garde" intervention to reduce injection assisting and promoting behaviours in people who inject drugs in Tallinn, Estonia: A pre- post trial by Uusküla, Anneli, Raag, Mait, Barnes, David M, Tross, Susan, Ave, Talu, Des Jarlais, Don C

“…In the context of established and emerging injection drug use epidemics, there is a need to prevent and avert injection drug use. We tested the hypothesis that…”
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Improving the Reporting Quality of Nonrandomized Evaluations of Behavioral and Public Health Interventions: The TREND Statement by Des Jarlais, Don C, Lyles, Cynthia, Crepaz, Nicole, TREND Group

“…Developing an evidence base for making public health decisions will require using data from evaluation studies with randomized and nonrandomized designs…”
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Program Adaptations to Provide Harm Reduction Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study of Syringe Services Programs in the U.S by Frost, Madeline C., Sweek, Elsa W., Austin, Elizabeth J., Corcorran, Maria A., Juarez, Alexa M., Frank, Noah D., Prohaska, Stephanie M., LaKosky, Paul A., Asher, Alice K., Broz, Dita, Jarlais, Don C. Des, Williams, Emily C., Glick, Sara N.

“…Syringe services programs (SSPs) are essential to preventing injection drug use-related infections and overdose death among people who use drugs (PWUD). The…”
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Risk factors for hepatitis C seropositivity among young people who inject drugs in New York City: Implications for prevention by Eckhardt, Benjamin, Winkelstein, Emily R, Shu, Marla A, Carden, Michael R, McKnight, Courtney, Des Jarlais, Don C, Glesby, Marshall J, Marks, Kristen, Edlin, Brian R

“…Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection remains a significant problem in the United States, with people who inject drugs (PWID) disproportionately afflicted. Over…”
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Changes in quality of life (WHOQOL-BREF) and addiction severity index (ASI) among participants in opioid substitution treatment (OST) in low and middle income countries: An international systematic review by Feelemyer, Jonathan P, Jarlais, Don C. Des, Arasteh, Kamyar, Phillips, Benjamin W, Hagan, Holly

“…Abstract Background Opioid substitution treatment (OST) can increase quality of life (WHOQOL-BREF) and reduce addiction severity index (ASI) scores among…”
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Potential geographic "hotspots" for drug-injection related transmission of HIV and HCV and for initiation into injecting drug use in New York City, 2011-2015, with implications for the current opioid epidemic in the US by Des Jarlais, D C, Cooper, H L F, Arasteh, K, Feelemyer, J, McKnight, C, Ross, Z

“…We identified potential geographic "hotspots" for drug-injecting transmission of HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) among persons who inject drugs (PWID) in New…”
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Harm reduction in the USA: the research perspective and an archive to David Purchase by Des Jarlais, Don C

“…The history of harm reduction in the USA has led to the development of some of the most important methods for treating persons for drug use disorders, such as…”
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Doing harm reduction better: syringe exchange in the United States by Des Jarlais, Don C., McKnight, Courtney, Goldblatt, Cullen, Purchase, David

“…ABSTRACT Objective  To trace the growth of syringe exchange programs (SEPs) in the United States since 1994–95 and assess the current state of SEPs. Methods …”
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HIV prevention for injecting drug users: the first 25 years and counting by Des Jarlais, Don C, Semaan, Salaam

“…During the last three decades, both the injection of illicit psychoactive drugs and HIV infection among injecting drug users (IDUs) have spread throughout…”
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Non-injection drug use and Hepatitis C Virus: A systematic review by Scheinmann, Roberta, Hagan, Holly, Lelutiu-Weinberger, Corina, Stern, Rebecca, Jarlais, Don C. Des, Flom, Peter L, Strauss, Shiela

“…Abstract This systematic review examined the evidence on the prevalence of the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) in non-injecting drug users (NIDUs) who sniff, smoke or…”
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Mortgage Discrimination and Racial/Ethnic Concentration Are Associated with Same-Race/Ethnicity Partnering among People Who Inject Drugs in 19 US Cities by Linton, Sabriya L., Cooper, Hannah L.F., Chen, Yen-Tyng, Khan, Mohammed A., Wolfe, Mary E., Ross, Zev, Des Jarlais, Don C., Friedman, Samuel R., Tempalski, Barbara, Broz, Dita, Semaan, Salaam, Wejnert, Cyprian, Paz-Bailey, Gabriela

“…Racial/ethnic homophily in sexual partnerships (partners share the same race/ethnicity) has been associated with racial/ethnic disparities in HIV. Structural…”
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Stigmatization of Newly Emerging Infectious Diseases: AIDS and SARS by Des Jarlais, Don C, Galea, Sandro, Tracy, Melissa, Tross, Susan, Vlahov, David

“…We assessed relationships between sociodemographic characteristics and mental health status and knowledge of, being worried about, and stigmatization of 2…”
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An application of agent-based modeling to explore the impact of decreasing incarceration rates and increasing drug treatment access on sero-discordant partnerships among people who inject drugs by Linton, Sabriya L., Jarlais, Don C. Des, Ornstein, Joseph T., Kasman, Matt, Hammond, Ross, Kianian, Behzad, Smith, Justin C., Wolfe, Mary E, Ross, Zev, German, Danielle, Flynn, Colin, Raymond, Henry F., Klevens, R. Monina, Spencer, Emma, Schacht, John-Mark, Finlayson, Teresa, Paz-Bailey, Gabriela, Wejnert, Cyprian, Cooper, Hannah L.F.

“…People who inject drugs (PWID) lag behind other key populations in HIV care continuum outcomes. The impacts of criminal justice reform and increasing drug…”
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Transitions from injection-drug-use-concentrated to self-sustaining heterosexual HIV epidemics: patterns in the international data by Des Jarlais, Don C, Feelemyer, Jonathan P, Modi, Shilpa N, Arasteh, Kamyar, Mathers, Bradley M, Degenhardt, Louisa, Hagan, Holly

“…Injecting drug use continues to be a primary driver of HIV epidemics in many parts of the world. Many people who inject drugs (PWID) are sexually active, so it…”
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Audio-computer interviewing to measure risk behaviour for HIV among injecting drug users: a quasi-randomised trial by Jarlais, Don C Des, Paone, Denise, Milliken, Judith, Turner, Charles F, Miller, Heather, Gribble, James, Shi, Qiuhu, Hagan, Holly, Friedman, Samuel R

“…We aimed to assess audio-computer-assisted self-interviewing (audio-CASI) as a method of reducing under-reporting of HIV risk behaviour among injecting drug…”
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Syringe Services Programs in the United States by Glick, Sara N., Prohaska, Stephanie M., LaKosky, Paul A., Juarez, Alexa M., Corcorran, Maria A., Des Jarlais, Don C.

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A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Interventions to Prevent Hepatitis C Virus Infection in People Who Inject Drugs by Hagan, Holly, Pouget, Enrique R., Des Jarlais, Don C.

“…Introduction. High rates of hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission are found in samples of people who inject drugs (PWID) throughout the world. The objective of…”
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COVID-19 vaccination and HIV transmission among persons who inject drugs during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City by Des Jarlais, Don C, Weng, Chenziheng Allen, Feelemyer, Jonathan, McKnight, Courtney

“…To examine COVID-19 vaccination and HIV transmission among persons who inject drugs (PWID) during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2022) in New York City (NYC). Two…”
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Controlling HIV epidemics among injection drug users: eight years of Cross-Border HIV prevention interventions in Vietnam and China by Hammett, Theodore M, Des Jarlais, Don C, Kling, Ryan, Kieu, Binh Thanh, McNicholl, Janet M, Wasinrapee, Punneeporn, McDougal, J Stephen, Liu, Wei, Chen, Yi, Meng, Donghua, Doan, Ngu, Tho, Huu Nguyen, Quyen, Ngoc Hoang, Tren, Van Hoang

“…HIV in Vietnam and Southern China is driven by injection drug use. We have implemented HIV prevention interventions for IDUs since 2002-2003 in Lang Son and Ha…”
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'Social evils' and harm reduction: the evolving policy environment for human immunodeficiency virus prevention among injection drug users in China and Vietnam by Hammett, Theodore M., Wu, Zunyou, Duc, Tran Tien, Stephens, David, Sullivan, Sheena, Liu, Wei, Chen, Yi, Ngu, Doan, Des Jarlais, Don C.

“…ABSTRACT Aims  This paper reviews the evolution of government policies in China and Vietnam regarding harm reduction interventions for human immunodeficiency…”
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