ArticleAdvances in preventive medicine2013
Why the Treatment of Mental Disorders Is an Important Component of HIV Prevention among People Who Inject Drugs.
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- Harms associated with injecting in public spaces: a global systematic review and meta-analysis.The International journal on drug policy · 2025Pooled it
- Interventions and approaches to integrating HIV and mental health services: a systematic review.Health policy and planning · 2017Pooled it
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- Testing the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of integrating accommodation strategies into an HIV prevention intervention for people who inject drugs with cognitive dysfunction.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2025Trial
- An Evaluation a PrEP-Focused HIV Prevention Intervention Tailored for Individuals with Opioid Use Disorder and Cognitive Dysfunction.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2025Trial
- Stigma experienced by people living with HIV who are on methadone maintenance treatment and have symptoms of common mental disorders in Hanoi, Vietnam: a qualitative study.AIDS research and therapy · 2022Trial
- Models of Integration for Mental Health and HIV/AIDS Among Adolescents and Young People in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Highlighting the Need for Representation of Black Women in PrEP Marketing and Educational Efforts: A Qualitative Study.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Substance Checking Outreach and PrEP Engagement (SCOPE) Study: protocol for a non-randomised clinical trialBMJ open · 2025Article
- Psychiatric Medication Treatment, Concurrent Substance Use, and Subsistence Difficulty Among People Who Inject Drugs with Diagnosed Mental Health Disorders in Los Angeles and Denver.Substance use & misuse · 2025Article
- Social Vulnerability and Mental Health Among People with HIV and Substance Use: The Role of Race.AIDS and behavior · 2024Article
- Coping strategies, challenges and potential interventions among adult patients with HIV and mental illness comorbidity in southwestern Uganda.Global public health · 2024Article
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- Psychosocial Interventions by Nurses for Patients with HIV/ AIDS: A Systematic Review.Journal of caring sciences · 2023Review
- Provision of HIV services to psychiatric inpatients in Botswana: Challenges and recommendations.The South African journal of psychiatry : SAJP : the journal of the Society of Psychiatrists of South Africa · 2023Article
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- The development and initial validation of the Russian version of the BASIS-24.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2022Review
- Perceived need, barriers to and facilitators of mental health care among HIV-infected PWID in Hanoi, Vietnam: a qualitative study.Harm reduction journal · 2019Article
- Depression, injecting drug use, and risky sexual behavior syndemic among women who inject drugs in Kenya: a cross-sectional survey.Harm reduction journal · 2019Article
- Depressive Symptoms at HIV Testing and Two-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Men Who Inject Drugs in Vietnam.AIDS and behavior · 2019Article
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Abstract
People who inject drugs are more likely to be HIV positive and to have a mental disorder than the general population. We explore how the detection and treatment of mental illness among people who are injecting drugs are essential to primary and secondary prevention of HIV infection in this population. Aside from opioid addiction, few studies have been conducted on the links between mental disorders and injection-drug use. However, independent of the injection-drug use literature, a growing number of studies demonstrate that untreated mental illness, especially depression and alcohol/substance use disorders, is associated with HIV-related risk behaviors, acquiring HIV infection, failure to access HIV care and treatment, failure to adhere to HIV care and treatment, and increased morbidity and mortality from HIV-related diseases and comorbidities. In our review of both the published literature and gray literature we found a dearth of information on models for providing care for both opioid addiction and other mental illnesses regardless of HIV status, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. We therefore make recommendations on how to address the mental health needs of HIV-positive people who inject drugs, which include the provision of opioid substitution therapy and integrated mental health, substance abuse, and HIV services.
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