Global prevalence of injecting drug use and sociodemographic characteristics and prevalence of HIV, HBV, and HCV in people who inject drugs: a multistage …

L Degenhardt, A Peacock, S Colledge… - The Lancet Global …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background Sharing of equipment used for injecting drug use (IDU) is a substantial cause of
disease burden and a contributor to blood-borne virus transmission. We did a global …

Impact of opioid substitution therapy on antiretroviral therapy outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

AJ Low, G Mburu, NJ Welton, MT May… - Clinical Infectious …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Background. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–infected people who inject drugs (PWID)
frequently encounter barriers accessing and remaining on antiretroviral therapy (ART) …

Integrating HIV and substance use services: a systematic review

V Haldane, F Cervero‐Liceras… - African Journal of …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Introduction: Substance use is an important risk factor for HIV, with both concentrated in
certain vulnerable and marginalized populations. Although their management differs, there …

Health systems facilitators and barriers to the integration of HIV and chronic disease services: a systematic review

N Watt, L Sigfrid, H Legido-Quigley… - Health policy and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Integration of services for patients with more than one diagnosed condition has intuitive
appeal but it has been argued that the empirical evidence to support it is limited. We report …

Integration of care for HIV and opioid use disorder

BJ Oldfield, N Munoz, MP McGovern, M Funaro… - Aids, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Objective: We sought to identify optimal strategies for integrating HIV-and opioid use
disorder-(OUD) screening and treatment in diverse settings. Design: Systematic review …

Improving antiretroviral therapy scale-up and effectiveness through service integration and decentralization

AB Suthar, GW Rutherford, T Horvath, MC Doherty… - Aids, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Background: Current service delivery systems do not reach all people in need of
antiretroviral therapy (ART). In order to inform the operational and service delivery section of …

Is co-location of services with HIV care associated with improved HIV care outcomes? A systematic review

Y Mizuno, DH Higa, CA Leighton, M Mullins, N Crepaz - AIDS care, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This systematic review identifies models of service co-location, a structural intervention
strategy to remove barriers to HIV care and services, and examines their associations with …

Integrated care of severe infectious diseases to people with substance use disorders; a systematic review

JH Vold, C Aas, RA Leiva, P Vickerman… - BMC infectious …, 2019 - Springer
Background Various integrated care models have been used to improve treatment
completion of medications for chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV), chronic hepatitis C virus …

Methadone maintenance therapy service components linked to improvements in HIV care cascade outcomes: A systematic review of trials and observational studies

NAM Salleh, P Voon, M Karamouzian, MJ Milloy… - Drug and alcohol …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The beneficial links between engagement in methadone maintenance therapy
(MMT) and HIV treatment outcomes have been extensively described. Nevertheless, people …

Developing an integrated, brief biobehavioral HIV prevention intervention for high-risk drug users in treatment: the process and outcome of formative research

R Shrestha, F Altice, P Karki… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
To date, HIV prevention efforts have largely relied on singular strategies (eg, behavioral or
biomedical approaches alone) with modest HIV risk-reduction outcomes for people who use …