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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...
Drug treatment and the conditionality of HIV treatment access: a qualitative study in a Russian cityTim Rhodes
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Addiction 107:1827-36. 2012..We explored social factors affecting access to antiretroviral HIV treatment (ART) among people who inject drugs (PWID) in a Russian city with a large HIV burden...- Narrating the social relations of initiating injecting drug use: transitions in self and societyTim Rhodes
The Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK
Int J Drug Policy 22:445-54. 2011.... - "Back then" and "nowadays": social transition narratives in accounts of injecting drug use in an East European settingTim Rhodes
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, London, UK
Soc Sci Med 74:425-33. 2012..We suggest that the narrative of transition offers a cultural script that says "transition is to blame"... 
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...- 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... - Risk environments and drug harms: a social science for harm reduction approachTim Rhodes
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK
Int J Drug Policy 20:193-201. 2009..A risk environment approach brings together multiple resources and methods in social science, and helps frame a 'social science for harm reduction'... - Parents who use drugs: accounting for damage and its limitationTim Rhodes
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, London, United Kingdom
Soc Sci Med 71:1489-97. 2010..Noting the absence of space for parents who use drugs to openly reflect or talk about the challenges they face, we identify the need for social change interventions to create enabling environments for earlier help seeking and talking... - 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... - 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... - 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)... - 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... - The social production of hepatitis C risk among injecting drug users: a qualitative synthesisTim Rhodes
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, London, UK
Addiction 103:1593-603. 2008..Intervention impact on reductions in hepatitis C virus (HCV) incidence among injecting drug users (IDUs) are modest. There is a need to explore how drug injectors' interpret HCV risk... - 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... - 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... - 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)... - Improving survey methods in sero-epidemiological studies of injecting drug users: a case example of two cross sectional surveys in Serbia and MontenegroAli Judd
MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London, UK
BMC Infect Dis 9:14. 2009.... - 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.... - 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... - 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... - Risk of sexually transmitted infections and violence among indoor-working female sex workers in London: the effect of migration from Eastern EuropeLucy Platt
Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 15 17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH, UK
Sex Transm Infect 87:377-84. 2011.... - 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... - 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... - "You should be grateful to have medicines": continued dependence, altering stigma and the HIV treatment experience in SerbiaSarah Bernays
Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
AIDS Care 22:14-20. 2010.... - 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.... - 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... - 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... - Violence, dignity and HIV vulnerability: street sex work in SerbiaMilena Simic
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Sociol Health Illn 31:1-16. 2009.... - 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.... - 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.... - 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 - 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... - Challenges in providing drug user treatment services in Russia: providers' viewsNatalia Bobrova
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Subst Use Misuse 43:1770-84. 2008..At this stage, it seems unreasonable to initiate compulsory treatment as is advocated by some government officials... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - Medical promise and the recalibration of expectation: hope and HIV treatment engagement in a transitional settingTim Rhodes
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Soc Sci Med 68:1050-9. 2009..It shows that disjuncture between discourses of global promise and local expectation creates uncertainty which affected individuals have to find some way of accounting for... - Postgraduate career intentions of medical students and recent graduates in Malawi: a qualitative interview studyNicola Bailey
St Georges University of London and Kingston University, Terrace, Cranmer SW17 ORE, London, UK
BMC Med Educ 12:87. 2012.... - 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... - Venous access and care: harnessing pragmatics in harm reduction for people who inject drugsMagdalena Harris
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Addiction 107:1090-6. 2012..To explore the facilitators of long-term hepatitis C avoidance among people who inject drugs... - Cannabis use and 'safe' identities in an inner-city school risk environmentAdam Fletcher
The Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E7HT, UK
Int J Drug Policy 20:244-50. 2009..This study explores how school experiences may shape young people's drug-related attitudes and actions and adds to existing evidence highlighting the importance of drug use in young people's identity construction and group bonding... - 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.... - 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... - 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... - 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... - Experiencing uncertain HIV treatment delivery in a transitional setting: qualitative studySarah Bernays
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
AIDS Care 21:315-21. 2009..The onus is generally placed on the individual to adhere, and there is little focus in research or policy on the state's adherence to delivering treatment consistently... - Pilot multimethod trial of a school-ethos intervention to reduce substance use: building hypotheses about upstream pathways to preventionChristopher P Bonell
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, London, United Kingdom
J Adolesc Health 47:555-63. 2010..We use qualitative and quantitative data from a pilot trial to build hypotheses regarding these... - Tuberculosis, injecting drug use and integrated HIV-TB care: A review of the literaturePippa Grenfell
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 15 17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH, UK Electronic address
Drug Alcohol Depend 129:180-209. 2013..People who inject drugs (PWID) are at increased risk of tuberculosis (TB) and reduced retention in treatment. There is a need to document strategies for integrated delivery of HIV, TB and drug dependency care... - Taming systems to create enabling environments for HCV treatment: negotiating trust in the drug and alcohol settingMagdalena Harris
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 15 17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H9SH, UK
Soc Sci Med 83:19-26. 2013..Whilst noting the effects of provider strategies to negotiate flexibility on behalf of would-be patients seeking treatment, we conclude by noting the limits of trust relations in settings of constrained choice... - Social and structural factors associated with HIV disease progression among illicit drug users: a systematic reviewMichael John S Milloy
aSchool of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia bBritish Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, St Paul s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada cDepartment of Epidemiology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA dDepartment of Medicine, University of British Columbia eBritish Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada fLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
AIDS 26:1049-63. 2012..To systematically review factors associated with HIV disease progression among illicit drug users, focusing on exposures exogenous to individuals that likely shape access and adherence to HIV treatment... - Social and environmental predictors of plasma HIV RNA rebound among injection drug users treated with antiretroviral therapyM J Milloy
British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, St Paul s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 59:393-9. 2012..Although studies have suggested higher rates of plasma viral load (PVL) rebound among IDU on antiretroviral therapy (ART), risk factors for rebound have not been thoroughly investigated... - Rapid assessment: an international review of diffusion, practice and outcomes in the substance use fieldChris Fitch
Department for International Development HIV AIDS Knowledge Programme, Department of Social Science and Medicine, Imperial College, The Reynolds Building 3rd Floor, St Dunstan s Road, University of London, London W6 8RP, UK
Soc Sci Med 59:1819-30. 2004.... - Transmission of hepatitis C--are noninjecting cocaine users at risk?Ali Judd
Subst Use Misuse 37:573-5. 2002 - 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... - 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... - Drug use settings: an emerging focus for research and interventionThomas Kerr
Int J Drug Policy 18:1-4. 2007 - 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.... - 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... - Safer groin-injecting interventions are needed and justifiable as part of a harm reduction approachTim Rhodes
Addiction 102:1987-8. 2007 - 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... - 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)...