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Survival sex work involvement as a primary risk factor for hepatitis C virus acquisition in drug-using youths in a canadian settingKate Shannon
British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, Division of AIDS, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, St Paul s Hospital, 608 1081 Burrard St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 1Y6, Canada
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 164:61-5. 2010..To examine whether there were differential rates of hepatitis C virus (HCV) incidence in injecting drug-using youths who did and did not report involvement in survival sex work...
Structural and environmental barriers to condom use negotiation with clients among female sex workers: implications for HIV-prevention strategies and policyKate Shannon
British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Am J Public Health 99:659-65. 2009..We investigated the relationship between environmental-structural factors and condom-use negotiation with clients among female sex workers...
Sexual and drug-related vulnerabilities for HIV infection among women engaged in survival sex work in Vancouver, CanadaKate Shannon
British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, St Paul s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Can J Public Health 98:465-9. 2007..This analysis aimed to determine HIV prevalence among women engaged in survival sex work, and explore sexual and drug-related vulnerabilities associated with baseline infection...- Prevalence and structural correlates of gender based violence among a prospective cohort of female sex workersKate Shannon
British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS St Paul s Hospital, Vancouver, BC V6Z 1Y6, Canada
BMJ 339:b2939. 2009..To examine the prevalence and structural correlates of gender based violence against female sex workers in an environment of criminalised prostitution... - Reconsidering the impact of conflict on HIV infection among women in the era of antiretroviral treatment scale-up in sub-Saharan Africa: a gender lensKate Shannon
Faculty of Medicine, School of Population and Public Health, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
AIDS 22:1705-7. 2008 - HIV and HCV prevalence and gender-specific risk profiles of crack cocaine smokers and dual users of injection drugsKate Shannon
British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, St Paul s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Subst Use Misuse 43:521-34. 2008..70, 95% CI: 1.10-2.81). These findings highlight the need for evidence-based prevention and harm reduction initiatives that directly targeting crack cocaine smokers, with particular attention given to female dual users of injection drugs... - Drug sharing with clients as a risk marker for increased violence and sexual and drug-related harms among survival sex workersK Shannon
British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, St Paul s Hospital, 608 1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada
AIDS Care 20:228-34. 2008.... - Mapping violence and policing as an environmental-structural barrier to health service and syringe availability among substance-using women in street-level sex workK Shannon
British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, Canada
Int J Drug Policy 19:140-7. 2008.... - Social and structural violence and power relations in mitigating HIV risk of drug-using women in survival sex workKate Shannon
British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, Vancouver, BC Canada
Soc Sci Med 66:911-21. 2008.... - Crystal methamphetamine use among female street-based sex workers: Moving beyond individual-focused interventionsKate Shannon
British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Drug Alcohol Depend 113:76-81. 2011..The findings highlight the crucial need to move beyond the individual to gender-focused safer environment interventions that mediate the physical and social risk environment of crystal methamphetamine use among FSWs... - Severe food insecurity is associated with elevated unprotected sex among HIV-seropositive injection drug users independent of HAART useKate Shannon
BC Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
AIDS 25:2037-42. 2011..To our knowledge, this study is the first to longitudinally evaluate the relationship between food insecurity and unprotected sex among HIV-seropositive people who inject drugs [injection drug users (IDUs)] both on and not on HAART... - Injection drug use among street-involved youth in a Canadian settingThomas Kerr
British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, St, Paul s Hospital, British Columbia, Canada
BMC Public Health 9:171. 2009..We undertook this study to examine the prevalence of injection drug use and associated risks among street-involved youth in Vancouver, Canada... - Survival sex work and increased HIV risk among sexual minority street-involved youthBrandon D L Marshall
British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, St Paul s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 53:661-4. 2010..We sought to determine if street-involved drug-using sexual minority youth are at greater risk for survival sex work and are more likely to engage in risk behaviors with clients... - Survival sex work involvement among street-involved youth who use drugs in a Canadian settingJill Chettiar
British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, St Paul s Hospital, Vancouver BC, Canada
J Public Health (Oxf) 32:322-7. 2010..Drug users engaged in survival sex work are at heightened risk for drug- and sexual-related harms. We examined factors associated with survival sex work among street-involved youth in Vancouver, Canada... - Violence and HIV risk among female sex workers in Southern IndiaKathleen N Deering
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Sex Transm Dis 40:168-74. 2013..The factors associated with client violence were also assessed... - A peer-led mobile outreach program and increased utilization of detoxification and residential drug treatment among female sex workers who use drugs in a Canadian settingKathleen N Deering
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Drug Alcohol Depend 113:46-54. 2011.... - Association of highly active antiretroviral therapy coverage, population viral load, and yearly new HIV diagnoses in British Columbia, Canada: a population-based studyJulio S G Montaner
British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, Providence Health Care, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Lancet 376:532-9. 2010..We aimed to estimate the association between plasma HIV-1 viral load, HAART coverage, and number of new cases of HIV in the population of a Canadian province... - High lifetime pregnancy and low contraceptive usage among sex workers who use drugs- an unmet reproductive health needPutu Duff
British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, St Paul s Hospital, 608 1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 1Y6, Canada
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 11:61. 2011..The objective of this study was to describe levels of pregnancy and contraceptive usage among a cohort of street-based female sex workers (FSWs) in Vancouver... - Access and utilization of HIV treatment and services among women sex workers in Vancouver's Downtown EastsideKate Shannon
BC Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, 1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6Z 1Y6
J Urban Health 82:488-97. 2005.... - Associations between childhood maltreatment and sex work in a cohort of drug-using youthJo Anne Madeleine Stoltz
BC Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, Vancouver, BC Canada
Soc Sci Med 65:1214-21. 2007..These findings have implications for early intervention efforts aimed at vulnerable, high-risk youth populations as well as intervention strategies for active sex trade workers... - Negotiating safety and sexual risk reduction with clients in unsanctioned safer indoor sex work environments: a qualitative studyAndrea Krusi
British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Am J Public Health 102:1154-9. 2012..We examined how unique, low-barrier, supportive housing programs for women who are functioning as unsanctioned indoor sex work environments in a Canadian urban setting influence risk negotiation with clients in sex work transactions... - Occupational stigma as a primary barrier to health care for street-based sex workers in CanadaLisa Lazarus
British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, St Paul s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Cult Health Sex 14:139-50. 2012.... - Nonadherence increases the risk of hospitalization among HIV-infected antiretroviral naive patients started on HAARTSarah J Fielden
B C Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
J Int Assoc Physicians AIDS Care (Chic) 7:238-44. 2008..Methods: Analysis was based on a cohort of individuals initiating HAART between 1996 and 2001. The primary outcome was hospitalization for one or more days. Survival methods were used to assess the impact of adherence on hospitalization... - Income generating activities of people who inject drugsKora deBeck
British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, University of British Columbia, St Paul s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 1Y6, Canada
Drug Alcohol Depend 91:50-6. 2007..However, little is known about the IDU who engage in such activities and the role of active drug use in perpetuating this behavior... - Individual and structural vulnerability among female youth who exchange sex for survivalCari L Miller
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
J Adolesc Health 49:36-41. 2011.... - Piloting a peer-driven intervention model to increase access and adherence to antiretroviral therapy and HIV care among street-entrenched HIV-positive women in VancouverKathleen Nicole Deering
BC Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
AIDS Patient Care STDS 23:603-9. 2009..Although this would not predict long-term treatment success, the PDI approach to HIV treatment support is a promising program for women who might otherwise be excluded from treatment altogether... - Expanded highly active antiretroviral therapy coverage among HIV-positive drug users to improve individual and public health outcomesJulio S G Montaner
BC Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, Providence Health Care, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 55:S5-9. 2010.... - Safety and danger in downtown Vancouver: understandings of place among young people entrenched in an urban drug sceneDanya Fast
British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, Urban Health Research Initiative, 608 1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6Z 1Y6
Health Place 16:51-60. 2010.... - Condom use within non-commercial partnerships of female sex workers in southern IndiaKathleen N Deering
Division of AIDS, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
BMC Public Health 11:S11. 2011.... - Gender inequity norms are associated with increased male-perpetrated rape and sexual risks for HIV infection in Botswana and SwazilandKate Shannon
Division of AIDS, Department of Medicine, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
PLoS ONE 7:e28739. 2012..This study is among the first to directly evaluate the adherence to gender inequity norms and epidemiological relationships with violence and sexual risks for HIV infection... - Supporting southern-led research: implications for North-South research partnershipsKatherine A Muldoon
School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Can J Public Health 103:128-31. 2012..This power asymmetry within North-South research partnerships may further exacerbate the unequal distribution of benefits from the research process... - Homelessness among a cohort of women in street-based sex work: the need for safer environment interventionsPutu Duff
British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, St, Paul s Hospital, 608 1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 1Y6, Canada
BMC Public Health 11:643. 2011..Drawing on data from a community-based prospective cohort study in Vancouver, Canada, we examined the prevalence and individual, interpersonal and work environment correlates of homelessness among 252 women in street-based sex work... - Seeking refuge from violence in street-based drug scenes: women's experiences in North America's first supervised injection facilityNadia Fairbairn
British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, Urban Health Research Initiative, St Paul s Hospital, 608 1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Soc Sci Med 67:817-23. 2008..Although this micro-environmental intervention serves to reduce risks common among women who inject drugs, additional interventions that address the structural forces producing and shaping violence and other risks are needed... - Sex work and the public health impacts of the 2010 Olympic GamesKathleen N Deering
Division of AIDS, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada
Sex Transm Infect 88:301-3. 2012..The authors examined the impact of exposure to the 2010 Winter Olympics time period on outcomes measuring disruption of local sex work environments in Vancouver, Canada... - High rates of primary care and emergency department use among injection drug users in VancouverT Kerr
British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, St Paul s Hospital, Canada
J Public Health (Oxf) 27:62-6. 2005..Using a community-based sample of IDUs, we examined rates of primary care and emergency room use among IDUs and identified correlates of frequent emergency department use... - Violence and HIV Risk Among Female Sex Workers in Southern IndiaKathleen N Deering
From the Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Karnataka Health Promotion Trust, Bangalore, India Laval University, Quebec City, Canada Department of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Imperial College, London, UK Departments of Medical Microbiology and Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada
Sex Transm Dis 42:168-74. 2013..The factors associated with client violence were also assessed... - Gendered HIV risk patterns among polygynous sero-discordant couples in UgandaKatherine A Muldoon
BC Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, Vancouver, Canada
Cult Health Sex 13:933-44. 2011..In this sample of sero-discordant couples we found indication of excess HIV-risk behaviour among men involved in polygynous relationships... - Police confrontations among street-involved youth in a Canadian settingLianping Ti
British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, St Paul s Hospital, 608 1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6Z 1Y6
Int J Drug Policy 24:46-51. 2013..However, the extent of interaction between police and street-involved youth has not been well characterized. We examined the incidence and risk factors for police confrontations among street-involved youth in a Canadian setting... - The social and environmental factors underlying maternal malnutrition in rural Bangladesh: implications for reproductive health and nutrition programsKate Shannon
Centre for International Health, Division of Health Sciences, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Health Care Women Int 29:826-40. 2008..The findings highlight the need to address traditional dietary taboos and preferenaces, and actively target key household decisionmakers, namely, husbands and mothers-in-law, in nutrition behavior change communication...