ReviewDrug and alcohol dependence2013
A review of medical and substance use co-morbidities in Central Asian prisons: implications for HIV prevention and treatment.
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- Changes in national rates of psychiatric beds and incarceration in Central Eastern Europe and Central Asia from 1990-2019: A retrospective database analysis.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2021Article
- Opioid epidemic and liver disease.JHEP reports : innovation in hepatology · 2019Review
- HIV, Drug Injection, and Harm Reduction Trends in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Implications for International and Domestic Policy.Current psychiatry reports · 2019Review
- System dynamics modeling of public health services provided by China CDC to control infectious and endemic diseases in China.Infection and drug resistance · 2019Article
- Drug injection within prison in Kyrgyzstan: elevated HIV risk and implications for scaling up opioid agonist treatments.International journal of prisoner health · 2018Article
- Alcohol and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Male Central Asian Labor Migrants and Non-migrants in Kazakhstan: Implications for HIV Prevention.AIDS and behavior · 2017Article
- Intersecting epidemics of HIV, HCV, and syphilis among soon-to-be released prisoners in Kyrgyzstan: Implications for prevention and treatment.The International journal on drug policy · 2016Article
- The perfect storm: incarceration and the high-risk environment perpetuating transmission of HIV, hepatitis C virus, and tuberculosis in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.Lancet (London, England) · 2016Review
- Trials and tribulations of conducting bio-behavioral surveys in prisons: implementation science and lessons from Ukraine.International journal of prisoner health · 2016Article
- Public health and international drug policy.Lancet (London, England) · 2016Review
- Risk Factors for Primary Pulmonary TB in Almaty Region, Kazakhstan: A Matched Case-Control Study.Iranian journal of public health · 2016Article
- Pre-incarceration police harassment, drug addiction and HIV risk behaviours among prisoners in Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan: results from a nationally representative cross-sectional study.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2016Article
- Burden of substance use disorders, mental illness, and correlates of infectious diseases among soon-to-be released prisoners in Azerbaijan.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2015Article
- Tuberculosis report among injection drug users and their partners in Kazakhstan.Public health · 2015Article
- Challenges to implementing opioid substitution therapy in Ukrainian prisons: Personnel attitudes toward addiction, treatment, and people with HIV/AIDS.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundHIV incidence in Central Asia is rising rapidly. People who inject drugs (PWIDs) contribute greatest to the epidemic, with more than a quarter of all HIV cases being in the criminal justice system (CJS). This review assembled and aggregated recent data on drug-related health problems and respective healthcare services in the CJS of Central Asia and the Republic of Azerbaijan.
methodsOnline databases and published literature (peer-reviewed and gray) were reviewed. Additionally, prison officials in the 6 countries were invited to participate in a survey and prison administrators from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan completed it.
resultsThe data on conditions and healthcare in Central Asian prisons are inconsistent and lack unbiased details. Reporting is primarily based on "official" disease registries, which markedly underestimate prevalence. Even these limited data, however, indicate that HIV prevalence and drug-related health problems are high, concentrated and, in some countries, rising rapidly in CJS. Only some of the range of HIV prevention interventions recommended by international organizations have been implemented in the region with two of the crucial interventions, needle and syringe exchange programs (NSP) and opioid substitution therapy (OST), only available in prisons in Kyrgyzstan, with Tajikistan implementing a pilot NSP and contemplating introduction of prison-based OST.
conclusionsDespite deficiencies in routine health reporting and insufficient HIV sentinel surveillance undertaken in prisons, the data available on the concentration of HIV within at-risk populations in prisons indicate a necessity to broaden the range and increase the scale the scale of HIV prevention and treatment services.
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