Perceived mistreatment in health care settings and its relationship with HIV clinical outcomes in HIV-positive people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada

L Jaibat, Z Cui, S Mitra, J Loh, H Reddon, N Fairbairn… - AIDS and Behavior, 2023 - Springer
People living with HIV (PLWH) often experience stigma and discrimination by health care
professionals. We investigated the prevalence of perceived mistreatment in health care …

[HTML][HTML] Univariable associations between a history of incarceration and HIV and HCV prevalence among people who inject drugs across 17 countries in Europe 2006 …

L Wiessing, E Kalamara, J Stone, P Altan… - …, 2021 - eurosurveillance.org
Background People who inject drugs (PWID) are frequently incarcerated, which is
associated with multiple negative health outcomes. Aim We aimed to estimate the …

Methadone maintenance therapy decreases the rate of antiretroviral therapy discontinuation among HIV-positive illicit drug users

H Reddon, MJ Milloy, A Simo, J Montaner, E Wood… - AIDS and Behavior, 2014 - Springer
We sought to examine whether methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) decreased rates of
antiretroviral therapy (ART) discontinuation and was associated with plasma HIV RNA …

Residential eviction and risk of detectable plasma HIV-1 RNA viral load among HIV-positive people who use drugs

MC Kennedy, T Kerr, R McNeil, S Parashar… - AIDS and Behavior, 2017 - Springer
We examined the relationship between residential eviction and exhibiting detectable plasma
HIV-1 RNA viral load (VL) among a prospective cohort of antiretroviral therapy (ART) …

Methamphetamine use drives decreases in viral suppression for people living with HIV released from a large municipal jail: results of the LINK LA clinical trial

D Goodman-Meza, S Shoptaw, RE Weiss… - Drug and alcohol …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background People living with HIV (PLWH) often experience decreases in HIV viral
suppression (VS) after release from jail. The Linking Inmates to Care in LA (LINK LA) peer …

Violence and other social structural factors linked to incarceration for women living with HIV in Metro Vancouver: need for trauma-informed HIV care in prisons and …

M Erickson, N Pick, F Ranville, RE Martin, M Braschel… - AIDS care, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Despite women living with HIV (WLWH) being disproportionately criminalized and
overrepresented within correctional facilities, there remains limited longitudinal research …

[HTML][HTML] The Mortality After Release from Incarceration Consortium (MARIC): Protocol for a multi-national, individual participant data meta-analysis.

R Borschmann, H Tibble, MJ Spittal… - … journal of population …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objectives To comprehensively document the incidence, timing, causes and risk factors for
mortality in adults released from prison. Methods We created the Mortality After Release …

Accumulation of jail incarceration and hardship, health status, and unmet health care need among women who use drugs

BH Lambdin, M Comfort, AH Kral, J Lorvick - Women's Health Issues, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Jail is frequently described as a “revolving door,” which can be profoundly
destabilizing to people moving in and out of the system. However, there is a dearth of …

Trajectories of retention in opioid agonist therapy and overdose risk during a community-wide overdose epidemic in a Canadian setting

ME Socías, H Dong, E Wood, S Nolan… - American journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Introduction Retention in opioid agonist therapy consistently has been linked with improved
outcomes among people with opioid use disorder. However, less is known about the links …

Increased prevalence of controlled viremia and decreased rates of HIV drug resistance among HIV-positive people who use illicit drugs during a community-wide …

MJ Milloy, E Wood, T Kerr, B Hogg… - Clinical Infectious …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Background. Although treatment-as prevention (TasP) is a new cornerstone of global human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–AIDS strategies, its effect among HIV-positive people who use …