ArticleJournal of the International AIDS Society2020
Challenges posed by COVID-19 to people who inject drugs and lessons from other outbreaks.
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95 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Assessing coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic impacts on the health of people who inject drugs using a novel data sharing model.AIDS (London, England) · 2025Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Simulation Models to Track and Address the Opioid Crisis.Epidemiologic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Designing and evaluating a technology-based intervention to address deep ambivalence about COVID vaccination among people who inject drugs.Health education research · 2025Trial
- Injection Drug Use and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among People who Inject Drugs in Ukraine: A Random-Intercept Latent Transition Analysis.AIDS and behavior · 2023Trial
- The impact of COVID-19 on people who inject drugs in New York City: increased risk and decreased access to services.Harm reduction journal · 2021Trial
- Municipal police support for harm reduction services in officer-led referrals of people who inject drugs in Tijuana, Mexico.Harm reduction journal · 2021Trial
- Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine uptake and preferences for service delivery among people who inject drugs accessing a syringe service program.Harm reduction journal · 2026Article
- Household crowding and mortality before and during the COVID-19 pandemic among adults: Findings from longitudinal population surveillance data in rural and peri-urban settings in Limpopo, South Africa.Population health metrics · 2025Article
- Barriers to and impacts of hepatitis C treatment among people who inject drugs in Kenya: A qualitative study.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Perceptions of access to harm reduction services during the COVID-19 pandemic among people who inject drugs in metropolitan Chicago.PloS one · 2025Article
- Navigating the COVID-19 Risk Environment, Overdose Prevention, and Self Care Practices of People Who Use Illicit Opioids in New York City.Substance use & misuse · 2025Article
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- Historical and theoretical roots of the big events framework.The International journal on drug policy · 2024Article
- COVID-19 vaccination intention among people who use drugs in France in 2021: results from the international community-based research program EPIC.Harm reduction journal · 2024Article
- Colocating Syringe Services, COVID-19 Vaccination, And Infectious Disease Testing: Baltimore's Experience.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2024Article
- HIV-1 transmission dynamics among people who inject drugs on the US/Mexico border during the COVID-19 pandemic: a prosepective cohort study.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2024Article
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- COVID-19 vaccination uptake and determinants of booster vaccination among persons who inject drugs in New York City.PloS one · 2024Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 Health Crisis on Key Populations at Higher Risk for, or Living With, HIV or Hepatitis C Virus and People Working With These Populations: Multicountry Community-Based Research Study Protocol (EPIC Program).JMIR research protocols · 2023Article
- COVID-19 vaccine uptake among people with HIV: identifying characteristics associated with vaccine hesitancy.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
introductionIn light of the COVID-19 pandemic, considerable effort is going into identifying and protecting those at risk. Criminalization, stigmatization and the psychological, physical, behavioural and economic consequences of substance use make people who inject drugs (PWID) extremely vulnerable to many infectious diseases. While relationships between drug use and blood-borne and sexually transmitted infections are well studied, less attention has been paid to other infectious disease outbreaks among PWID. DISCUSSION: COVID-19 is likely to disproportionally affect PWID due to a high prevalence of comorbidities that make the disease more severe, unsanitary and overcrowded living conditions, stigmatization, common incarceration, homelessness and difficulties in adhering to quarantine, social distancing or self-isolation mandates. The COVID-19 pandemic also jeopardizes essential for PWID services, such as needle exchange or substitution therapy programmes, which can be affected both in a short- and a long-term perspective. Importantly, there is substantial evidence of other infectious disease outbreaks in PWID that were associated with factors that enable COVID-19 transmission, such as poor hygiene, overcrowded living conditions and communal ways of using drugs.
conclusionsThe COVID-19 crisis might increase risks of homelessnes, overdoses and unsafe injecting and sexual practices for PWID. In order to address existing inequalities, consultations with PWID advocacy groups are vital when designing inclusive health response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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