Background/aims To examine trends in rural Appalachian opioid and related drug
epidemics during the past 10 years, including at-risk populations, substance use shifts and …

Social network analysis (SNA) and social network-based interventions (SNI) are important
analytical tools harnessing peer and family influences critical for HIV prevention and …

Introduction The HIV epidemic is increasingly penetrating rural areas of the US due to
evolving epidemics of injection drug use. Many rural areas experience deficits in availability …

Innovative approaches are needed to combat the illegal trade in wildlife. Here, we used
network analysis and a new database, HealthMap Wildlife Trade, to identify the key nodes …

Background Injection drug use (IDU) in nonurban areas of the United States is a growing
public health concern, but there has been no comprehensive assessment of existing …

Abstract Background Rural Kentucky is an epicenter of hepatitis C (HCV), especially among
young adults who inject drugs. While the Risk Environment Framework (REF) has been …

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has a number of circulating recombinant forms that are
the product of recombination between different HIV subtypes. The first circulating …

Objective: Rural women, particularly those in the criminal justice system, are at risk for HIV
related to the increasing prevalence of injection drug use as well as limited services …

Abstract Purpose of Review To describe the epidemiology of opioid-use disorder in the rural
United States (US) as it pertains to HIV and hepatitis C transmission and treatment …

Background Respondent driven sampling (RDS) and incentivized snowball sampling (ISS)
are two sampling methods that are commonly used to reach people who inject drugs …