ArticleJournal of public health (Oxford, England)2016
Healthcare avoidance by people who inject drugs in Bangkok, Thailand.
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- Risky injection practices and HCV awareness in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand: a respondent-driven sampling study of people who inject drugs.BMC public health · 2020Article
- COVID-19 and the health of people who use drugs: What is and what could be?The International journal on drug policy · 2020Article
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- The Impact of Perceptions of Community Stigma on Utilization of HIV Care Services.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2020Article
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- A scoping review of health-related stigma outcomes for high-burden diseases in low- and middle-income countries.BMC medicine · 2019Article
- Editorial: Atrocity in the Philippines: How Rodrigo Duterte's War on Drug Users May Exacerbate the Burgeoning HIV Epidemic.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2017Article
- Elimination of HCV as a public health concern among people who inject drugs by 2030 - What will it take to get there?Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundAlthough people who inject drugs (IDU) often contend with various health-related harms, timely access to health care among this population remains low. We sought to identify specific individual, social and structural factors constraining healthcare access among IDU in Bangkok, Thailand.
methodsData were derived from a community-recruited sample of IDU participating in the Mitsampan Community Research Project between July and October 2011. We assessed the prevalence and correlates of healthcare avoidance due to one's drug use using multivariate logistic regression.
resultsAmong 437 participants, 112 (25.6%) reported avoiding health care because they were IDU. In multivariate analyses, factors independently associated with avoiding health care included having ever been drug tested by police [adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 1.80], experienced verbal abuse (AOR = 3.15), been discouraged from engaging in usual family activities (AOR = 3.27), been refused medical care (AOR = 10.90), experienced any barriers to health care (AOR = 4.87) and received healthcare information and support at a drop-in centre (AOR = 1.92) (all P < 0.05).
conclusionsThese findings highlight the need to address the broader policy environment, which perpetuates the criminalization and stigmatization of IDU, and to expand peer-based interventions to facilitate access to health care for IDU in this setting.
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