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HIV infection associated with drug injecting in the newly independent states, eastern Europe: the social and economic context of epidemicsT Rhodes
Department of Social Science and Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, University of London, UK
Addiction 94:1323-36. 1999..We aim to draw attention to the social and economic "risk environments" in which rapid HIV spread among IDUs has occurred...- Accounting for unprotected sex: stories of agency and acceptabilityTim Rhodes
Department of Social Science and Medicine, The Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, Imperial College School of Medicine, University of London, UK
Soc Sci Med 55:211-26. 2002..We conclude that accounts of risk management are risk managed. We call for greater attention by social scientists to the way in which accounts are constructed, and in particular, to 'anti-rational' forms of explanation within accounts... - Explosive spread and high prevalence of HIV infection among injecting drug users in Togliatti City, RussiaTim Rhodes
Department of Social Science and Medicine, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, University of London, London, UK
AIDS 16:F25-31. 2002..To establish the prevalence of antibodies to HIV (anti-HIV) and associated risk factors among injecting drug users (IDU) in Togliatti City, Samara Oblast, Russian Federation... - Situational factors influencing drug injecting, risk reduction and syringe exchange in Togliatti City, Russian Federation: a qualitative study of micro risk environmentTim Rhodes
Department of Social Science and Medicine, The Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, University of London, Reynolds Building, St Dunstan s Road, SW6 8RP, London, UK
Soc Sci Med 57:39-54. 2003..We note the role of policing practices in influencing risk reduction and the potential role of policing agencies in supporting HIV prevention initiatives among IDUs... - Crack-heroin speedball injection and its implications for vein care: qualitative studyTim Rhodes
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Addiction 102:1782-90. 2007..We report on an exploratory qualitative study investigating drug injectors' narratives of vein damage and groin (femoral vein) injection associated with the injection of crack-heroin speedball... - Public injection settings in Vancouver: physical environment, social context and riskWill Small
British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, St Paul s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada
Int J Drug Policy 18:27-36. 2007.... - Risk, shame and the public injector: a qualitative study of drug injecting in South WalesTim Rhodes
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Soc Sci Med 65:572-85. 2007..This highlights tensions between strategies seeking to create safer communities and environmental interventions seeking to reduce drug-related health harm, including recent innovations such as the 'drug consumption room' (DCR)... 
Methods to recruit hard-to-reach groups: comparing two chain referral sampling methods of recruiting injecting drug users across nine studies in Russia and EstoniaLucy Platt
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
J Urban Health 83:i39-53. 2006....- High HIV prevalence among injecting drug users in Estonia: implications for understanding the risk environmentLucy Platt
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
AIDS 20:2120-3. 2006..Differences existed in risk behaviour between the cities. An urgent scale-up of HIV prevention is needed. It is also important to explore how local 'risk environments' mediate the risk of HIV transmission... - Effects of sex work on the prevalence of syphilis among injection drug users in 3 Russian citiesLucy Platt
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behavior, Imperial College, London, England
Am J Public Health 97:478-85. 2007..We examined risk factors for syphilis infection among injection drug users in 3 Russian Federation cities, focusing particular attention on the potential roles of gender and sex work... - 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... - Global estimates of prevalence of HCV infection among injecting drug usersCarmen Aceijas
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, London, UK
Int J Drug Policy 18:352-8. 2007..In this paper, we review evidence of HCV prevalence among injecting drug users (IDUs) worldwide... 
Hope: a new way to look at the HIV epidemicSarah Bernays
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
AIDS 21:S5-11. 2007..It offers unrealized potential, particularly for thinking about structural interventions in relation to managing HIV as a chronic illness and for maximizing HIV risk reduction in resource-poor settings...- Individual, social, and environmental influences associated with HIV infection among injection drug users in Tijuana, MexicoSteffanie A Strathdee
Division of International Health and Cross Cultural Medicine, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 47:369-76. 2008..We examined correlates of HIV infection among injection drug users (IDUs) in Tijuana, Mexico, a city bordering the United States, which is situated on major migration and drug trafficking routes... - Hygiene and uncertainty in qualitative accounts of hepatitis C transmission among drug injectors in SerbiaTim Rhodes
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Soc Sci Med 66:1437-47. 2008..Hygiene narratives are a core and symbolic feature of injectors' accounts of hepatitis C transmission. There is an urgent need for health promotion fostering hepatitis C risk awareness and risk avoidance among drug injectors in Serbia... - Changes in HIV prevalence and risk among new injecting drug users in a Russian city of high HIV prevalenceLucy Platt
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, Public and Environmental Health Research Unit, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 47:623-31. 2008..To measure HIV prevalence and associated risk factors among recent initiates into drug injecting in 2001 and 2004 in Togliatti City, Russian Federation... - High-prevalence and high-estimated incidence of HIV infection among new injecting drug users in Estonia: need for large scale prevention programsAnneli Uuskula
Department of Public Health, University of Tartu, Ravila 19, 50411 Tartu, Estonia
J Public Health (Oxf) 30:119-25. 2008..Behavioral surveys were administered; serum samples were collected for HIV testing. Subjects were categorized into new injectors (injecting < or = 3 years) and long-term injectors (injecting > 3 years)... - Access to syringes in three Russian cities: implications for syringe distribution and coverageAnya Sarang
Russian Harm Reduction Network, Ilimskaya Street, 4 1 38, 127576 Moscow, Russia
Int J Drug Policy 19:S25-36. 2008..We report findings from a multi-method study investigating drug injectors' access to needles and syringes in three large Russian cities (Moscow, Volgograd, Barnaul)... - Drug injecting and syringe use in the HIV risk environment of Russian penitentiary institutions: Qualitative studyAnya Sarang
Russian Harm Reduction Network, Moscow, Russia
Addiction 101:1787-96. 2006..CONCLUSION: This study shows an urgent need for HIV prevention interventions in the Russian penitentiary system... - Street policing, injecting drug use and harm reduction in a Russian city: a qualitative study of police perspectivesTim Rhodes
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
J Urban Health 83:911-25. 2006..We conclude that facilitating partnerships between policing agencies and HIV prevention initiatives are a critical feature of creating environments conducive for risk reduction... - Hepatitis C virus infection, HIV co-infection, and associated risk among injecting drug users in Togliatti, RussiaTim Rhodes
The Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour and Unit for International Public Health and Development, Imperial College, London, UK
Int J STD AIDS 16:749-54. 2005..There is an urgent need to maximize syringe distribution coverage, develop health promotion targeting HCV prevention for IDUs, and improve access among IDUs to treatments for HIV and HCV infection... - Impact of gender and sex work on sexual and injecting risk behaviors and their association with HIV positivity among injecting drug users in an HIV epidemic in Togliatti City, Russian FederationLucy Platt
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour and the Unit for International Health and Development, Imperial College, London, UK
Sex Transm Dis 32:605-12. 2005..Togliatti City is witness to a large epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) associated with injecting drug use (IDU)... - The social structural production of HIV risk among injecting drug usersTim Rhodes
The Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, Imperial College London, UK
Soc Sci Med 61:1026-44. 2005.... - Global overview of injecting drug use and HIV infection among injecting drug usersCarmen Aceijas
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour CRDHB, Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK
AIDS 18:2295-303. 2004..To provide global estimates of the prevalence of injecting drug use (IDU) and HIV prevalence among IDU, in particular to provide estimates for developing and transitional countries... - The prevalence of injecting drug use in a Russian city: implications for harm reduction and coverageLucy Platt
Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, University of London, London, UK
Addiction 99:1430-8. 2004..This study sought to estimate the prevalence of injecting drug users (IDU) in Togliatti city and to examine the implications of these estimates for HIV prevalence and harm reduction... - Preventing hepatitis C: 'common sense', 'the bug' and other perspectives from the risk narratives of people who inject drugsMark Davis
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, Department of Social Science and Medicine, Imperial College London, The Reynolds Building, St. Dunstan's Road, London SW6 8RP, UK
Soc Sci Med 59:1807-18. 2004.... - Prevalence of HIV, hepatitis C and syphilis among injecting drug users in Russia: a multi-city studyTim Rhodes
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour and Unit for International Public Health and Development, Imperial College London, UK
Addiction 101:252-66. 2006..To estimate the prevalence of HIV, hepatitis C virus (HCV) and syphilis in injecting drug users (IDUs) in Russia... - Hepatitis C and its risk management among drug injectors in London: renewing harm reduction in the context of uncertaintyTim Rhodes
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, Department of Social Science and Medicine, Imperial College London, University of London, London, UK
Addiction 99:621-33. 2004.... - Injecting equipment sharing among injecting drug users in Togliatti City, Russian Federation: maximizing the protective effects of syringe distributionTim Rhodes
The Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour and Department for International Development Knowledge Programme in HIV AIDS, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, University of London, United Kingdom
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 35:293-300. 2004..To compare risk factors for injecting equipment sharing among injecting drug users (IDUs) in Togliatti City, Russia... - Accounting for risk and responsibility associated with smoking among mothers of children with respiratory illnessLauren Coxhead
The Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College London, UK
Sociol Health Illn 28:98-121. 2006..The study concludes that far greater consideration be given to the way in which mothers rationalise their smoking to others if paediatric doctors are to foster risk reduction practices associated with passive smoking more effectively... - Estimating prevalence of injecting drug use: a comparison of multiplier and capture-recapture methods in cities in England and RussiaMatthew Hickman
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, CRDHB, Division of Primary Care and Population Sciences, Imperial College, London, UK
Drug Alcohol Rev 25:131-40. 2006..CRC methods should be preferred as the means of estimating numbers of drug users with multiplier methods being used with caution and only where CRC is not possible... - Model projections on the required coverage of syringe distribution to prevent HIV epidemics among injecting drug usersPeter Vickerman
HIVTools Research Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 42:355-61. 2006..Although syringe distribution is effective in preventing HIV transmission among injecting drug users (IDUs), there is little evidence on the required coverage to substantially reduce HIV transmission... - Transition and the HIV risk environmentTim Rhodes
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, Imperial College, London W6 8RP, UK
BMJ 331:220-3. 2005 - Safer groin-injecting interventions are needed and justifiable as part of a harm reduction approachTim Rhodes
Addiction 102:1987-8. 2007 - Barriers to accessing drug treatment in Russia: a qualitative study among injecting drug users in two citiesNatalia Bobrova
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, Imperial College London, UK; Mental Health NHS Trust, UK
Drug Alcohol Depend 82:S57-63. 2006..These priorities are especially timely given the urgent need to integrate drug treatment as part of wider HIV prevention responses in Russia... - Rapid assessment and response studies of injection drug use: knowledge gain, capacity building, and intervention development in a multisite studyGerry V Stimson
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, Imperial College London, Reynolds Building, St Dunstan s Road, London W6 8RP, United Kingdom
Am J Public Health 96:288-95. 2006.... - Drug use settings: an emerging focus for research and interventionThomas Kerr
Int J Drug Policy 18:1-4. 2007 - Injection drug users' perceptions of drug treatment services and attitudes toward substitution therapy: a qualitative study in three Russian citiesNatalia Bobrova
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
J Subst Abuse Treat 33:373-8. 2007..Although respondents had doubts that opiate substitution therapy could work effectively in Russia, most agreed that this type of treatment would help IDUs function better in the society... - Public injecting and the need for 'safer environment interventions' in the reduction of drug-related harmTim Rhodes
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Addiction 101:1384-93. 2006..Yet the quality of evidence on public injecting and related viral risk is variable, and is lacking in many countries such as the United Kingdom... - Exploring barriers to 'respondent driven sampling' in sex worker and drug-injecting sex worker populations in Eastern EuropeMilena Simic
The Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, UK
J Urban Health 83:i6-15. 2006..We discuss the implications of these findings for recruitment and the use of monetary and non-monetary incentives in future RDS studies of SW populations in Eastern Europe... - Police violence and sexual risk among female and transvestite sex workers in Serbia: qualitative studyTim Rhodes
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, London WC1E 7HT
BMJ 337:a811. 2008..To explore female and transvestite sex workers' perceptions of risk in the sex work environment in Serbia...