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Global/Multinational
 

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  FULL TEXT PDF ARTICLE
 HIV risk behaviors among female IDUs in developing and transitional countries.
Cleland CM, Des Jarlais DC, et al
BMC Public Health. 2007 Oct 1;7(1):271
 Paper
Africa
 
Egypt
 
         Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters
 
  Key findings of Bio-BSS among high risk groups in the Middle East, Egypt case study
 C. Soliman, Z. El Taher, A. Abed El Sattar, et al
 (XVII International AIDS Conference)
 Abstract

Tanzania

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Differences in HIV Risk Behaviors by Gender in a Sample of Tanzanian Injection
Drug Users.
Williams ML, McCurdy SA, Atkinson JS, et al
AIDS Behav. 2006 Sep 27;
 Abstract
Australia/Pacific Islands
Australia

Australia

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
Drug use and risk among regular injecting drug users in Australia: does age make a difference?
Degenhardt L, Kinner SA, Roxburgh A, et al  
Drug Alcohol Rev. 2008 Jul;27(4):357-60
 Abstract

Representativeness of injecting drug users who participate in HIV surveillance: results from Australia's
Needle and Syringe Program Survey.
Topp L, Iversen J, Wand H, et al
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2008 Apr 15;47(5):632-8.
 Abstract
 
Methadone- and buprenorphine-related ambulance attendances: A population-based indicator of
adverse events.
Nielsen S, Dietze P, Cantwell K, et al 
J Subst Abuse Treat. 2008 Feb 21
 Abstract
 
The effects of the market withdrawal of temazepam gel capsules on benzodiazepine injecting in
Sydney, Australia.
Degenhardt L, Roxburgh A, van Beek I, et al  
Drug Alcohol Rev. 2008 Mar;27(2):145-51.
 Abstract
 
Initiators: An Examination of Young Injecting Drug Users Who Initiate Others to Injecting.
Bryant J, Treloar C
AIDS Behav. 2007 Dec 21
 Abstract
 
Patterns of Nonfatal Heroin Overdose Over a 3-Year Period: Findings From the
Australian Treatment Outcome Study.
Darke S, Williamson A, Ross J, et al  
J Urban Health. 2007 Jan 30
 Abstract
 
Changes in the initiation of heroin use after a reduction in heroin supply.
Day C, Degenhardt L, Hall W.  
Drug Alcohol Rev. 2006 Jul;25(4):307-313.
 Abstract
 
Governing street-based injecting drug users: a critique of heroin overdose
prevention in Australia.
Moore D.
Soc Sci Med. 2004 Oct;59(7):1547-57.
 Abstract

Risk behaviours of young Indo-Chinese injecting drug users in Sydney
and Melbourne .
Maher L, Sargent P, Higgs P, et al.. 
Aust N Z J Public Health 2001;25(1):50-4
 Abstract

         Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters

  Cultural influences and HIV risk behaviours among ethnic Vietnamese Injecting
Drug Users in Australia
L Maher, H Ho, N Crofts
 (15IAC)
 Abstract
Middle East
 
Afghanistan
 
         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  Correlates of receptive and distributive needle sharing among injection drug users in kabul,
afghanistan.
Todd CS, Abed AM, Scott PT, et al
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2008;34(1):91-100.
Abstract
 
Iran

         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
 
Injection Drug Use in Rural Iran: Integrating HIV Prevention into Iran's Rural Primary Health Care System.
Mojtahedzadeh V, Razani N, Malekinejad M, et al 
AIDS Behav. 2008 Jun 3.
 Abstract
 
Needle and Syringe Sharing Practices Among Injecting Drug Users in Tehran: A Comparison of Two
Neighborhoods, One with and One Without a Needle and Syringe Program.
Zamani S, Vazirian M, Nassirimanesh B, et al
AIDS Behav. 2008 May 16.
 Abstract

HIV risk behavior among injection drug users in Tehran, Iran.
Razani N, Mohraz M, Kheirandish P, et al 
Addiction. 2007 Jul 23;
Abstract

Patterns of drug use among a sample of drug users and injecting drug users attending
a General Practice in Iran.
Day CA, Nassirimanesh B, Shakeshaft A, Dolan K.  
Harm Reduct J. 2006 Jan 24;3(1):2
Abstract
 
          Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters
 
  Sexual behaviors of IDUs who registered in 15 selected DICs in Iran (IR), 2008
 A.R. Mirahmadizadeh , S.R. Majdzadeh, M.H. Foroonzanfar
 (XVII International AIDS Conference)
 Abstract

Pakistan

         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
Background demographics and risk behaviors of injecting drug users in Karachi, Pakistan.
Parviz S, Fatmi Z, Altaf A, et al   
 Int J Infect Dis. 2006 Jun 19;  
 Abstract

Rise in needle sharing among injection drug users in Pakistan during the A
fghanistan war.
Strathdee SA, Zafar T, Brahmbhatt H, et al
Drug Alcohol Depend. 2003 Jul 20;71(1):17-24.
Abstract

          Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters

  Determinants of HIV risky behaviors among drug users in Faisalabad Pakistan
A Akhtar, M Aslam, M I Zafar
 (15IAC)
 Abstract
Russia/New Independent States
 

Kazakhstan

         Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters

  Risk factors for HIV infection among injecting drug users in Kazakhstan: implications
for prevention interventions
R N Bronzan, B Zhussupov, M Favorov, et al
 (15IAC)
 Abstract
 
Injecting drug users' behavior, epidemiological survey data in Shymkent city
M S E Yerasilova
 (15IAC)
 Abstract
 
  Assessment of behavioural and biological indicators in injecting drug users (IDUs)
Caplinskiene I., Kulsiene J., Caplinskas S.
 (XVI International AIDS Conference )
Abstract

Russia

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
Impact of Gender and Sex Work on Sexual and Injecting Risk Behaviors and Their
Association With HIV Positivity Among Injecting Drug Users in an HIV Epidemic in
Togliatti City, Russian Federation.
Platt L, Rhodes T, Lowndes CM, et al
Sex Transm Dis. 2005 Oct;32(10):605-612.
 Abstract
 
Demographic characteristics, treatment history, drug risk behaviors, and
condom use attitudes for u.s. And Russian injection drug users: the need for
targeted sexual risk behavior interventions.
Ksobiech K, Somlai AM, Kelly JA, et al  
AIDS Behav. 2005 Mar;9(1):111-20
 Abstract
 

          Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters
 
Russian Harm Reduction Network encourages linkage between HIV/AIDS prevention an
treatment services for IDUs
Djuma V., Sarang A., Korzhaeva N.
 (XVI International AIDS Conference)
 Abstract

Identifying high risk injection drug users and intervening to reduce that risk
R Heimer, L E Grau, D Zelterman, et al
 (15IAC)
 Abstract
 
Ukraine
 
              Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  Stimulant Injectors in Ukraine: The Next Wave of the Epidemic?
Booth RE, Lehman WE, Kwiatkowski CF, et al  
AIDS Behav. 2008 Feb 9
 Abstract

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