ArticleAmerican journal of public health2014
Risk factors for HCV infection among young adults in rural New York who inject prescription opioid analgesics.
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- Health harms of non-medical prescription opioid use: A systematic review.Drug and alcohol review · 2022Pooled it
- Community viral load and hepatitis C virus infection: Community viral load measures to aid public health treatment efforts and program evaluation.Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology · 2020Pooled it
- The opioid and related drug epidemics in rural Appalachia: A systematic review of populations affected, risk factors, and infectious diseases.Substance abuse · 2020Pooled it
- Injection drug use, HIV/HCV, and related services in nonurban areas of the United States: A systematic review.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2018Pooled it
- Mobile Telemedicine for Treating Chronic Hepatitis C Among Rural People Who Inject Drugs: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2026Trial
- Association of skin infections with sharing of injection drug preparation equipment among people who inject drugs.The International journal on drug policy · 2021Trial
- Integrated Studies of Infectious Disease Elimination (InSIDE): Hepatitis C Antibody and RNA Status of Persons Who Inject Drugs in New York State, 2021-2023.Journal of viral hepatitis · 2026Article
- Hepatitis C virus transmission among people who inject drugs in rural United States: mathematical modeling study using stochastic agent-based network simulation.American journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Hepatitis C Surveillance in the United States: Past, Present, and Future.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) · 2025Review
- Sustained Impact of Task-shifting HCV Treatment to Nonspecialist Providers: 5-Year Follow Up of the ASCEND Investigation.Open forum infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Medicaid Policy and Hepatitis C Treatment Among Rural People Who Use Drugs.Medical care · 2025Article
- Potential impact of curative and preventive interventions toward hepatitis C elimination in people who inject drugs-A network modeling study.The International journal on drug policy · 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
- National HIV and HCV Screening Rates for Hospitalized People who Use Drugs Are Suboptimal and Heterogeneous Across 11 US Hospitals.Open forum infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Temporal trends in HCV treatment uptake and success among people who inject drugs in Baltimore, MD since the introduction of direct acting antivirals.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2023Article
- Factors associated with receptive injection equipment sharing among people who inject drugs: findings from a multistate study at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.Harm reduction journal · 2023Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hepatitis C outcomes at a health-system specialty pharmacy.Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy · 2022Article
- Hepatitis C virus risk among young people who inject drugs.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- The hepatitis C epidemic in Canada: An overview of recent trends in surveillance, injection drug use, harm reduction and treatment.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2021Article
- Rural-Urban Residence and Maternal Hepatitis C Infection, U.S.: 2010-2018.American journal of preventive medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectivesWe investigated a cluster of new hepatitis C cases in rural New York among a cohort of young people who inject drugs (PWID) and misuse prescription opioid analgesics (POA).
methodsWe recruited a purposive sample of PWID from Cortland County for an in-person survey and HCV rapid antibody test (March-July 2012). We examined sociodemographics, drugs currently injected, and lifetime and recent injection behaviors to ascertain associations with HCV antibody (anti-HCV) positivity.
resultsOf 123 PWID, 76 (61.8%) were younger than 30 years, and 100 (81.3%) received HCV rapid testing. Of those tested, 34 (34.0%) were positive. Participants who reported injecting POA in the past 12 months were 5 times more likely to be anti-HCV positive than those who injected drugs other than POA, and participants who reported sharing injection equipment in the past 12 months were roughly 4 times more likely to be anti-HCV positive than those who did not.
conclusionsOur analysis suggests people injecting POA may be at higher risk for HCV infection than people who inject heroin or other drugs but not POA.
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