ArticleEuropean addiction research2010
Liquid drugs and high dead space syringes may keep HIV and HCV prevalence high - a comparison of Hungary and Lithuania.
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- Options for reducing HIV transmission related to the dead space in needles and syringes.Harm reduction journal · 2018Article
- Acceptability of low dead space syringes and implications for their introduction: A qualitative study in the West of England.The International journal on drug policy · 2017Article
- A needle in the haystack--the dire straits of needle exchange in Hungary.BMC public health · 2016Article
- Prevalence and Correlates of the Use of Prefilled Syringes Among Persons Who Inject Drugs in San Diego, CA.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2015Article
- Using Pharmacies in a Structural Intervention to Distribute Low Dead Space Syringes to Reduce HIV and HCV Transmission in People Who Inject Drugs.American journal of public health · 2015Article
- Social marketing of low dead space syringes in Vietnam: findings from a 1-year pilot program in Hanoi, Thai Nguyen, and Ho Chi Minh City.Harm reduction journal · 2015Article
- Social network structure and HIV infection among injecting drug users in Lithuania: gatekeepers as bridges of infection.AIDS and behavior · 2014Article
- A simulative comparison of respondent driven sampling with incentivized snowball sampling--the "strudel effect".Drug and alcohol dependence · 2014Article
- Anti-HCV prevalence in the general population of Lithuania.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2012Article
- HIV among people who inject drugs in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia: a systematic review with implications for policy.BMJ open · 2012Article
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Abstract
Despitevery similar political, drug policy and HIV prevention backgrounds, HIV and HCV prevalence is considerably different in Hungary (low HIV and moderate HCV prevalence) and Lithuania (high HCV and moderate HIV prevalence). Wecompared the drug use profile of Hungarian (n = 215) and Lithuanian (n = 300) injecting drug users (IDUs). Overall, compared with IDUs in Hungary, IDUs in Lithuania often injected opiates purchased in liquid form ('shirka'), used and shared 2-piece syringes (vs. 1-piece syringes) disproportionately more often, were less likely to acquire their syringes from legal sources and had significantly more experience with injected and less experience with non-injected drugs. It may not be liquid drugs per se that contribute to a higher prevalence of HCV and/or HIV, but it is probably factors associated with the injecting of liquid drugs, such as the wide-spread use and sharing of potentially contaminated 2-piece syringes acquired often from non-legal sources, and syringe-mediated drug sharing with 2-piece syringes. Scaling up substitution therapy, especially heroin replacement, combined with reducing the supply of liquid drugs may decrease the prevalence of high-risk injecting behaviours related to the injecting of liquid drugs and drug injecting-related infections among IDUs in Lithuania.
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