[PDF][PDF] The hepatitis C epidemic in Canada: an overview of recent trends in surveillance, injection drug use, harm reduction and treatment

L Lourenço, M Kelly, J Tarasuk, K Stairs… - Canada Communicable …, 2021 - canada.ca
Hepatitis C continues to be a significant public health concern in Canada, with the hepatitis
C virus (HCV) responsible for more life-years lost than all other infectious diseases in …

Adaptation of the Tele-Harm Reduction intervention to promote initiation and retention in buprenorphine treatment among people who inject drugs: a retrospective …

E Suarez, TS Bartholomew, M Plesons… - Annals of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Background: At the start of the pandemic, relaxation of buprenorphine prescribing
regulations created an opportunity to create new models of medications for opioid use …

[HTML][HTML] Acceptability, feasibility, and pilot results of the tele-harm reduction intervention for rapid initiation of antiretrovirals among people who inject drugs

HE Tookes, TS Bartholomew, E Suarez… - Drug and alcohol …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background People who inject drugs (PWID) have been a marginalized and a stigmatized
population since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic and have not experienced the same …

Self-reported impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic among people who use drugs: a rapid assessment study in Montreal, Canada

N Minoyan, SB Høj, C Zolopa, D Vlad, J Bruneau… - Harm Reduction …, 2022 - Springer
Background People who use drugs (PWUD) are at high risk of experiencing indirect harms
of measures implemented to curb the spread of COVID-19, given high reliance on services …

[HTML][HTML] Patient-reported outcomes during and after hepatitis C virus direct-acting antiviral treatment among people who inject drugs

Q Cheng, EB Cunningham, S Shih, J Amin, J Bruneau… - Value in Health, 2023 - Elsevier
Objectives People who inject drugs (PWID) are at a high risk of hepatitis C virus (HCV)
infection. HCV cure is associated with improved patient-reported outcomes (PROs), but …

Prevalence of Hepatitis B in Canadian First-Time Blood Donors: Association with Social Determinants of Health

SF O'Brien, B Ehsani-Moghaddam, M Goldman… - Viruses, 2024 - mdpi.com
Hepatitis B is transmitted sexually, by blood contact, and vertically from mother to child.
Chronic hepatitis B is often seen in immigrants from higher-prevalence countries and their …

HIV and HCV seroincidence, associated factors and drug use in people who inject drugs, SurvUDI network, eastern central Canada, 1995–2020

K Blouin, C Blanchette, P Leclerc, C Morissette… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Background The SurvUDI network is a biobehavioural survey among people who
inject drugs (PWID) in Eastern Central Canada. Objectives The objectives were to describe …

[HTML][HTML] A Novel Index Measure of Housing-related Risk as a Predictor of Overdose among Young People Who Inject Drugs and Injection Networks

K Kristensen, LD Williams, C Kaplan, J Pineros… - Research …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background For people who inject drugs (PWID), housing instability due to decreasing
housing affordability and other factors (eg, loss of housing due to severed relational ties …

[HTML][HTML] Social Media Responses to COVID-19: The hepatitis C epidemic in Canada: An overview of recent trends in surveillance, injection drug use, harm reduction …

L Lourenço, M Kelly, J Tarasuk, K Stairs… - Canada …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Hepatitis C continues to be a significant public health concern in Canada, with the hepatitis
C virus (HCV) responsible for more life-years lost than all other infectious diseases in …

Assessing the Potential of Oral Opioid Agonist Treatment to Prevent Injection Drug Use Initiation Assistance Provision in People Who Inject Drugs

Z Bouck - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Injection drug use is a significant risk factor for morbidity and mortality from overdose and
injection-related infections. Most first-time injections involve assistance from experienced …