Childhood sexual abuse and age at initiation of injection drug use

D. C. OMPAD ; R. M. IKEDA ; N. SHAH ; C. M. FULLER ; S. BAILEY ; MORSE E. ; P. KERNDT ; MASLOW C. ; Y. WU ; D. VLAHOV ; R. GARFEIN ; S. A. STRATHDEE | 2005
Dans American Journal of Public Health (Vol.95 n°4, 2005) Article : Périodique

ENGLISH : OBJECTIVES: We examined the relation between childhood sexual abuse and injection drug use initiation among young adult injection drug users. METHODS: We used mixed effect linear models to compare age at first injection among 2143 yo[...]

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HIV prevalence, risk behaviors, and high-risk sexual and injection networks among young women injectors who have sex with women

S. R. FRIEDMAN ; D. C. OMPAD ; MASLOW C. ; R. YOUNG ; P. CASE ; S. M. HUDSON ; T. DIAZ ; MORSE E. ; S. BAILEY ; D. C. DES JARLAIS ; PERLIS T. ; HOLLIBAUGH A. ; R. S. GARFEIN | 2003
Dans American Journal of Public Health (Vol.93 n°6, 2003) Article : Périodique

ENGLISH : Women injection drug users who have sex with women (WSW IDUs) constitute 20% to 30% of American women IDUs. Compared with other women IDUs, WSW IDUs have higher HIV prevalence and incidence rates and a greater likelihood of engaging [...]

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Urging others to be healthy: "intravention" by injection drug users as a community prevention goal

S. R. FRIEDMAN ; MASLOW C. ; BOLYARDM. ; M. SANDOVAL ; P. MATEU-GELABERT ; A. NEAIGUS | 2004
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ENGLISH : "Intravention," prevention activities that are conducted by and sustained through ongoing actions of members of communities-at-risk, is an appropriate goal for HIV intervention activities. Data from 120 injection drug users in a Broo[...]

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Variability in the incidence of human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus infection among young injecting drug users in New York city

D. C. DES JARLAIS ; T. DIAZ ; PERLIS T. ; D. VLAHOV ; M. LATKA ; ROCKWELL R. ; V. EDWARDS ; S. R. FRIEDMAN ; E. MONTERROSO ; I. WILLIAMS ; R. S. GARFEIN ; MASLOW C. | 2003
Dans American Journal of Epidemiology (Vol.157, n°5, March 2003) Article : Périodique

Cohort studies of young (aged 18-30 years) injecting drug users recruited in 1997-1999 in the Harlem and Lower East Side areas of New York City, New York, were used to assess the incidence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus[...]

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