ArticleBMJ open2014
Higher risk of incident hepatitis C virus among young women who inject drugs compared with young men in association with sexual relationships: a prospective analysis from the UFO Study cohort.
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40 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Needle and syringe programmes and opioid substitution therapy for preventing HCV transmission among people who inject drugs: findings from a Cochrane Review and meta-analysis.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2018Pooled it
- Needle syringe programmes and opioid substitution therapy for preventing hepatitis C transmission in people who inject drugs.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Higher incidence of HCV in females compared to males who inject drugs: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of viral hepatitis · 2017Pooled it
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- Care strategies for pregnant people and women living with hepatitis C in North America.AJOG global reports · 2026Article
- Optimal provision of opiate substitution therapy and needle and syringe programmes: a multi-method realist evaluation.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2025Article
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- A mathematical model of HCV transmission dynamics with sex stratification and environmental effects.PloS one · 2025Article
- The effect of spatial variation on linkage to care and treatment rates among patients with hepatitis C: A Canadian population-based study.Canadian liver journal · 2024Article
- Widespread hepatitis C virus transmission network among people who inject drugs in Kenya.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2024Article
- HCV prevalence and phylogenetic characteristics in a cross-sectional, community study of young people who inject drugs in New York City: Opportunity for and threats to HCV elimination.Health science reports · 2024Article
- Epidemiology of acute hepatitis C and hepatitis C virus-related cirrhosis in reproductive-age women, 1990-2019: An analysis of the Global Burden of Disease study.Journal of global health · 2024Article
- A time series analysis of detection and mortality of hepatitis C in Brazil, 2008-2018.BMC infectious diseases · 2022Article
- Hepatitis C Care Cascades for 3 Populations at High Risk: Low-income Trans Women, Young People Who Inject Drugs, and Men Who Have Sex With Men and Inject Drugs.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021Article
- Misclassification Error-Adjusted Prevalence of Injection Drug Use Among Infective Endocarditis Hospitalizations in the United States: A Serial Cross-Sectional Analysis of the 2007-2016 National Inpatient Sample.American journal of epidemiology · 2021Article
- Screening for Sexually Transmitted Infections During Hepatitis C Treatment to Predict Reinfection Among People With HIV.Open forum infectious diseases · 2021Article
- Factors associated with phylogenetic clustering of hepatitis C among people who inject drugs in Baltimore.BMC infectious diseases · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundFemale injection drug users (IDUs) may report differences in injection behaviours that put them at greater risk for hepatitis C virus (HCV). Few studies have examined these in association with HCV incidence.
methodsLongitudinal data from a cohort of 417 HCV-uninfected IDU aged 30 or younger were analysed. Cox proportional hazards was used to model female sex as a predictor of new HCV infection. General estimating equation (GEE) analysis was used to model female sex as a predictor of HCV-associated risk behaviour prospectively.
resultsWomen were significantly more likely than men to become infected with HCV during study follow-up (HR 1.4, p<0.05), and were also more likely than men to report high-risk injecting behaviours, especially in the context of sexual and injecting relationships. Sex differences in injecting behaviours appeared to explain the relationship between sex and HCV infection.
conclusionsYoung women's riskier injection practices lead to their higher rates of HCV infection. Further study on the impact of intimate partnership on women's risk behaviour is warranted.
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