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Factors Associated with Exchange Sex Among Cisgender Persons Who Inject Drugs: Women and MSM—23 U.S. Cities, 2018
Persons who inject drugs (PWID) and exchange sex face disproportionate HIV rates. We assessed prevalence of exchange sex (receiving money/drugs for...
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HIV awareness, pre-exposure prophylaxis perceptions and experiences among people who exchange sex: qualitative and community based participatory study
BackgroundPeople who exchange sex for money, favors, goods or services, combat higher risk of acquiring sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and...
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Prognostic factors in fluid–gas exchange after primary idiopathic macular hole surgery
PurposeThis retrospective study aimed to evaluate the prognostic factors associated with the success of fluid–gas exchange in patients who had...
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Simultaneous injection‐aspiration technique of air/fluid exchange for in‐office treatment of post‐operative vitreous cavity hemorrhage
BackgroundPost-operative vitreous cavity hemorrhage following pars plana vitrectomy is common. In-office drainage of the hemorrhage may be an option...
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“We were building the plane as we were flying it, and we somehow made it to the other end”: syringe service program staff experiences and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic
BackgroundSyringe service programs (SSPs) provide essential harm reduction and prevention services for people who inject drugs in the USA, where SSP...
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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.
Syringe services programs (SSPs) are essential to preventing injection drug use-related infections and overdose death among people who use drugs...
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Factors that influence enrollment in syringe services programs in rural areas: a qualitative study among program clients in Appalachian Kentucky
BackgroundEnrolling sufficient number of people who inject drugs (PWID) into syringe services programs (SSP) is important to curtail outbreaks of...
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Evaluation of lung volumes and gas exchange in surfactant-deficient rabbits between variable and fixed servo pressures during high-frequency jet ventilation
ObjectiveTo investigate a novel servo pressure (SP) setting during high-frequency jet ventilation (HFJV) for a lung protective strategy in a neonatal...
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Accessing needle exchange services in disasters for remote areas of Aotearoa New Zealand
BackgroundNeedle Exchange Programme (NEP) mobile outreach services in Aotearoa New Zealand distribute injecting equipment to people who inject drugs...
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Preventive and therapeutic reduction of amyloid deposition and behavioral impairments in a model of Alzheimer’s disease by whole blood exchange
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the major form of dementia in the elderly population. The main neuropathological changes in AD patients are neuronal...
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Syringe service program-based telemedicine linkage to opioid use disorder treatment: protocol for the STAMINA randomized control trial
BackgroundA key strategy for mitigating the current opioid epidemic is expanded access to medications for treating opioid use disorder (MOUD)....
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Visual outcomes and complications following one-way air-fluid exchange technique for vitreous hemorrhage post vitrectomy in proliferative diabetic retinopathy patients
BackgroundTo evaluate the efficacy and outcomes of one-way surgical technique for the treatment of vitreous hemorrhage post vitrectomy on...
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Come back when you’re infected: pharmacy access to sterile syringes in an Arizona Secret Shopper Study, 2023
BackgroundPharmacies are critical healthcare partners in community efforts to eliminate bloodborne illnesses. Pharmacy sale of sterile syringes is...
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More evidence or stronger political will: exploring the feasibility of needle and syringe programs in Ukrainian prisons
IntroductionIn 2007, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended for prison authorities to introduce prison needle and syringe programs (PNSP) if...
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Baseline differences in characteristics and risk behaviors among people who inject drugs by syringe exchange program modality: an analysis of the Miami IDEA syringe exchange
BackgroundIn March of 2016, Florida passed the Infection Disease Elimination Act (IDEA), legalizing the formation of the first syringe exchange...
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Partial two-stage exchange: an alternative method for infected total hip arthroplasty
BackgroundTotal two-stage exchange is commonly used in clinical practice as a treatment for infected total hip arthroplasty (THA); however, this...
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Criminalization and coercion: sexual encounters with police among a longitudinal cohort of women who exchange sex in Baltimore, Maryland
BackgroundThe criminalization of sex work and drug use creates unequal power dynamics easily exploited by police. Women who exchange sex (WES) in...
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Distributive Syringe Sharing and Use of Syringe Services Programs (SSPs) Among Persons Who Inject Drugs
Monitoring distributive syringe sharing (DSS) and syringe services program (SSP) use among persons who inject drugs (PWID) is important for HIV...
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people who inject drugs accessing harm reduction services in a rural American state
BackgroundThe impact of public health policies during the COVID-19 pandemic on people who inject drugs (PWID) has varied across regions. In other...
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Longitudinal Factors Associated with Used Syringe Lending Among HIV-Positive Antiretroviral Therapy-Naïve People Who Inject Drugs in a Canadian Setting
Sharing used syringes is an important route of HIV transmission, however, factors sha** used syringe-lending among antiretroviral therapy...