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| Lisa MaherSummaryAffiliation: University of New South Wales Country: Australia Publications
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Impact of a reduction in heroin availability on patterns of drug use, risk behaviour and incidence of hepatitis C virus infection in injecting drug users in New South Wales, AustraliaLisa Maher
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, St Vincent s Medical Centre, 376 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW 10, Australia
Drug Alcohol Depend 89:244-50. 2007....
Using ethnographic fieldwork to inform hepatitis C vaccine preparedness studies with people who inject drugsLisa Maher
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research and School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Int J Drug Policy 21:194-201. 2010..Feasibility studies are an important component of preparations for field trials of biomedical prevention interventions, including vaccines...
Amphetamine-type stimulant use and HIV/STI risk behaviour among young female sex workers in Phnom Penh, CambodiaL Maher
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Int J Drug Policy 22:203-9. 2011..In Cambodia, recent ATS use is independently associated with incident STI infection among young female sex workers (FSWs)...- Candidate hepatitis C vaccine trials and people who inject drugs: challenges and opportunitiesLisa Maher
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Centre for Immunology, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia
Vaccine 28:7273-8. 2010..Significant biological and social factors and differences between HIV and HCV suggest that HCV warrants targeted vaccine preparedness research to lay the groundwork for successful implementation of future trials... - Scaling up HIV treatment, care and support for injecting drug users in VietnamLisa Maher
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research and School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Int J Drug Policy 18:296-305. 2007.... - The epidemiology of hepatitis C in Australia: notifications, treatment uptake and liver transplantations, 1997-2006Heather F Gidding
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia
J Gastroenterol Hepatol 24:1648-54. 2009..The aim of this study was to examine trends in the epidemiology and treatment of HCV in Australia... - Acceptability of hepatitis C virus testing methods among injecting drug usersBethany White
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, Australia
Drug Alcohol Rev 27:666-70. 2008..The aim of the current study was to determine the acceptability of three methods of hepatitis C virus (HCV) testing among injecting drug users (IDUs): oral fluid, capillary blood and venous blood sampling... - Representativeness of injecting drug users who participate in HIV surveillance: results from Australia's Needle and Syringe Program SurveyLibby Topp
Viral Hepatitis Epidemiology and Prevention Program, National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 47:632-8. 2008..This study examined the representativeness of NSP Survey samples... - Hepatitis C virus acquisition among injecting drug users: a cohort analysis of a national repeated cross-sectional survey of needle and syringe program attendees in Australia, 1995-2004Kathleen Falster
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
J Urban Health 86:106-18. 2009..In summary, our findings suggest a persistent HCV epidemic despite significant harm reduction efforts in Australia since the mid-1980s, with HIV incidence effectively constant in successive initiation cohorts... - High hepatitis C incidence in new injecting drug users: a policy failure?Lisa Maher
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research and School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Aust N Z J Public Health 31:30-5. 2007..This study aimed to determine incidence of HCV and associated risk factors among new IDUs in Sydney... - Higher HCV antibody prevalence among Indigenous clients of needle and syringe programsJames Ward
The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, 45 Beach Street, Coogee, NSW 2010
Aust N Z J Public Health 35:421-6. 2011..To compare prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody and associated risk behaviours among Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants in the Australian Needle and Syringe Program Survey... - Learning from the past: young Indigenous people's accounts of blood-borne viral and sexually transmitted infections as resilience narrativesJulie Mooney-Somers
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia
Cult Health Sex 13:173-86. 2011.... - Correlates of susceptibility to hepatitis B among people who inject drugs in Sydney, AustraliaRachel M Deacon
Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
J Urban Health 89:769-78. 2012..The lack of an association between incarceration and vaccination also suggests increasing vaccination uptake and completion in adult and juvenile correctional facilities may also be important... - Disproportionate impact of combination antiretroviral therapy on AIDS incidence in Australia: results from a modified back-projection modelHandan Wand
The Kirby Institute, UNSW Cliffbrook Campus, Sydney, NSW, Australia
AIDS Behav 16:360-7. 2012..The impact of cART on AIDS diagnoses has been modest among IDUs. Late presentation, poor access to health services and barriers to uptake of cART may account for the divergence between these population groups... - Gender differences in hepatitis C antibody prevalence and risk behaviours amongst people who inject drugs in Australia 1998-2008Jenny Iversen
Viral Hepatitis Epidemiology and Prevention Program, National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, Australia
Int J Drug Policy 21:471-6. 2010..This study aims to assess gender differences in hepatitis C antibody prevalence and associated risk behaviours amongst a large sample of PWID in Australia... - Injecting-related injury and disease among clients of a supervised injecting facilityAllison M Salmon
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia
Drug Alcohol Depend 101:132-6. 2009..The social and physical environments in which drugs are injected play a significant role in these and other morbidities. Supervised injecting facilities (SIFs) seek to address such issues associated with public injecting drug use... - Promoting equitable access to hepatitis C treatment for Indo-Chinese injecting drug usersHeidi Coupland
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research and School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Australia
Health Promot J Austr 20:234-40. 2009..Little is known about barriers to treatment uptake among culturally diverse groups of IDUs. Indo-Chinese IDUs represent a marginalised group with high rates of incident and prevalent HCV infection... - Estimating population attributable risk for hepatitis C seroconversion in injecting drug users in Australia: implications for prevention policy and planningHandan Wand
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Sydney, Australia
Addiction 104:2049-56. 2009..To determine risk factors and estimate their population-level contribution to hepatitis C virus (HCV) burden... - The impact of a supervised injecting facility on ambulance call-outs in Sydney, AustraliaAllison M Salmon
National Centre HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
Addiction 105:676-83. 2010.... - Enhancing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people's resilience to blood-borne and sexually transmitted infections: findings from a community-based participatory research projectJulie Mooney-Somers
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Health Promot J Austr 20:195-201. 2009.... - Motivators and barriers influencing willingness to participate in candidate HCV vaccine trials: perspectives of people who inject drugsJu Nyeong Park
The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Centre for Immunology, Cnr Boundary and West Streets, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia
Drug Alcohol Depend 123:35-40. 2012..However, little is known about the factors that influence willingness to participate (WTP) in candidate HCV vaccine trials among this group... - Incidence and risk factors for hepatitis C seroconversion in injecting drug users in AustraliaLisa Maher
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research and School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Addiction 101:1499-508. 2006..To determine the incidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and identify risk factors for seroconversion... - High HIV testing and low HIV prevalence among injecting drug users attending the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting CentreAllison M Salmon
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, Australia
Aust N Z J Public Health 33:280-3. 2009..Measure the self-reported prevalence of HIV, history of HIV testing and associated risk factors among injecting drug users (IDUs) attending the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC)... - The impact of needle and syringe programs on HIV and HCV transmissions in injecting drug users in Australia: a model-based analysisJisoo A Kwon
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 51:462-9. 2009..We aim to estimate how changes in sterile syringe distribution through needle-syringe programs (NSPs) may affect HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) incidence among injecting drug users (IDUs) in Australia... - Condom negotiation across different relationship types by young women engaged in sex work in Phnom Penh, CambodiaLisa Maher
Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity in Society, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Glob Public Health 8:270-83. 2013..The lack of improvement in condom use in FSWs' non-commercial sexual relationships needs to be understood in relation to both sex work and the broader Cambodian sexual culture within which these relationships are embedded... - The reliability of sensitive information provided by injecting drug users in a clinical setting: clinician-administered versus audio computer-assisted self-interviewing (ACASI)M Mofizul Islam
School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
AIDS Care 24:1496-503. 2012..Adoption of a universal precautionary approach to complement individually tailored assessment of and advice regarding health risk behaviours for IDUs may address this issue... - Estimating the cost-effectiveness of needle-syringe programs in AustraliaJisoo A Kwon
The Kirby Institute, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
AIDS 26:2201-10. 2012..To evaluate the impact and cost-effectiveness of needle-syringe programs (NSPs) with respect to HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections among Australian injecting drug users (IDUs)... - Factors influencing a self-limiting HIV outbreak among ethnic Vietnamese injecting drug users in Melbourne, AustraliaPeter Higgs
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Qual Health Res 19:1690-701. 2009..Early and effective engagement with participants by health care workers also appears to have played an important role in containing the transmission of HIV within this group of ethnic Vietnamese heroin injectors... - "Fitness for duty": social, organisational and structural influences on the design and conduct of candidate hepatitis C vaccine trials involving people who inject drugsCarla Treloar
National Centre in HIV Social Research, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Vaccine 28:5228-36. 2010.... - Prevalence and predictors of injecting-related injury and disease among clients of Australia's needle and syringe programsLibby Topp
Viral Hepatitis Epidemiology and Prevention Program, National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Darlinghurst, New South Wales
Aust N Z J Public Health 32:34-7. 2008..To identify lifetime prevalence and predictors of self-reported injecting-related injuries and diseases (IRID) and/or injecting-related problems (IRP) among a national cross-sectional sample of injecting drug users... - Có vay có tra (What goes around comes around): culture, risk and vulnerability to blood-borne viruses among ethnic Vietnamese injecting drug usersHien Thi Ho
School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and Hanoi School of Public Health, Vietnam
Drug Alcohol Rev 27:420-8. 2008.... - Fifteen years of HIV surveillance among people who inject drugs: the Australian Needle and Syringe Program Survey 1995-2009Libby Topp
Viral Hepatitis Epidemiology and Prevention Program, National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, Australia
AIDS 25:835-42. 2011..This study aimed to determine the correlates of HIV infection among PWID; and to examine these correlates over time... - Clinical trial literacy among injecting drug users in Sydney, Australia: A pilot studyAnna Doab
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, Darlinghurst NSW 2010, Australia
Contemp Clin Trials 30:431-5. 2009.... - Is point of access to needles and syringes related to needle sharing? Comparing data collected from pharmacies and needle and syringe programs in south-east SydneyJoanne Bryant
National Centre in HIV Social Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Drug Alcohol Rev 29:364-70. 2010..This paper examines patterns of equipment acquisition and risk for blood-borne virus transmission among injecting drug users who use pharmacies and needle and syringe programs (NSP) in south-east Sydney... - Qualitative accounts of needle and syringe cleaning techniques among people who inject drugs in Sydney, AustraliaJai Nathani
Viral Hepatitis Epidemiology and Prevention Program, National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
Drug Alcohol Rev 29:413-9. 2010..This study attempts to identify and assess cleaning practices in terms of the techniques involved and the social contexts in which cleaning takes place... - Modelling the hepatitis C virus epidemic in AustraliaKarina Razali
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
Drug Alcohol Depend 91:228-35. 2007..This paper updates estimates of HCV incidence and prevalence between 1960 and 2005... - Five years on: what are the community perceptions of drug-related public amenity following the establishment of the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre?Allison M Salmon
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, NSW, Australia
Int J Drug Policy 18:46-53. 2007.... - Sequential bottlenecks drive viral evolution in early acute hepatitis C virus infectionRowena A Bull
School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia
PLoS Pathog 7:e1002243. 2011..These results provide the first detailed analysis of early within-host evolution of HCV, indicating strong selective forces limit viral evolution in the acute phase of infection... - Improving surveillance for acute hepatitis CRachel M Deacon
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales
Commun Dis Intell Q Rep 35:16-20. 2011.... - Risk behaviors and antibody hepatitis B and C prevalence among injecting drug users in south-western Sydney, AustraliaLisa Maher
School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
J Gastroenterol Hepatol 19:1114-20. 2004.... - A diagnosis of hepatitis C - insights from a study on patients' experiencesCarla Treloar
National Centre in HIV Social Research, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales
Aust Fam Physician 39:589-92. 2010..Previous research has documented patient experiences of hepatitis C virus (HCV) diagnosis to be without sufficient pretest and post-test discussions - health professionals have expressed a need for training in this area... - Overdose beliefs and management practices among ethnic Vietnamese heroin users in Sydney, AustraliaLisa Maher
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Sydney, Australia
Harm Reduct J 6:6. 2009..Implications for overdose prevention, treatment and management are identified and discussed... - High Rates of Late HIV Diagnosis Among People Who Inject Drugs Compared to Men Who Have Sex with Men and Heterosexual Men and Women in AustraliaHandan Wand
Faculty of Medicine, Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, 45 Beach Street, Coogee, Sydney, NSW, 2034, Australia
AIDS Behav 17:235-41. 2013..Ongoing prevention efforts need to be coupled with targeted testing and treatment efforts to increase the diagnosis of recent infection in PWID and reduce apparent inequities in access to screening... - Chlamydia in the Pacific region, the silent epidemicSusan J Cliffe
Perinatal and Reproductive Epidemiology and Research Unit, School Women s and Children s Health, University of New South Wales, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
Sex Transm Dis 35:801-6. 2008.... - Developing and validating a scoring tool for identifying people who inject drugs at increased risk of hepatitis C virus infectionHandan Wand
The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
BMJ Open 2:e000387. 2012..Conclusions Knowledge of HCV status has important implications for public health and care and treatment. Risk assessment strategies may assist in alerting PWID who are at increased risk of HCV infection to present for testing... - Selling sex in unsafe spaces: sex work risk environments in Phnom Penh, CambodiaLisa Maher
The Kirby Institute formerly the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Harm Reduct J 8:30. 2011..abstract:.. - The Indigenous Resiliency Project: a worked example of community-based participatory researchJulie Mooney-Somers
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, Australia
N S W Public Health Bull 20:112-8. 2009..A commentary on the experience of one health worker involved in the project accompanies the paper... - 4th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and PreventionLisa Maher
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Med J Aust 187:610-2. 2007 - How can hepatitis C be prevented in the long term?Pedro Mateu-Gelabert
Center for Drug Use and HIV Research, National Development Research Institutes, New York City, NY, United States
Int J Drug Policy 18:338-40. 2007..These studies aim to provide the conceptual basis for developing a new generation of HCV prevention programs to assist both new and experienced IDUs to remain uninfected over the long run... - Blood-borne virus prevalence and risk among steroid injectors: results from the Australian Needle and Syringe Program SurveyCarolyn A Day
Drug Health Services, Central Clinical School, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
Drug Alcohol Rev 27:559-61. 2008 - Supervised injecting facilities: how much evidence is enough?Lisa Maher
Drug Alcohol Rev 26:351-3. 2007 - Hepatitis C among intravenous drug usersLisa Maher
Epidemiology 16:423; author reply 424. 2005 - Measuring effectiveness of needle and syringe exchange programs for prevention of HIV among injecting drug users: Response to AmundsenLisa Maher
Addiction 101:1834-6. 2006 - Applied communitarian ethics for harm reduction: promoting a dialogue within the fieldCraig Fry
Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre Inc and Department of Health Science, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Australia
Drug Alcohol Rev 26:553-5. 2007..This 'discursive authenticity' as Hathaway has called it, can help to define a new territory of authority for drug users as participants in harm reduction policy, practice and research... - Beyond Olmstead. What the New Freedom Initiative means for long-term careLisa Maher
Contemp Longterm Care 25:19-21. 2002 - Methamphetamine: geographic areas and populations at risk, and emerging evidence for effective interventionsLouisa Degenhardt
Drug Alcohol Rev 27:217-9. 2008 - Beneficiaries get green light to appeal Medicare policiesLisa Maher
Contemp Longterm Care 25:8. 2002 - Drugs, public health and policing in indigenous communitiesLisa Maher
Drug Alcohol Rev 23:249-51. 2004