County-Level Vulnerability Assessment for Rapid Dissemination of HIV or HCV Infections Among Persons Who Inject Drugs, United States

M. Van Handel, Michelle; E. Rose, Charles; Hallisey, Elaine; Kolling, Jessica; E. Zibbell, Jon; Lewis, Brian; K. Bohm, Michele; M. Jones, Christopher; Flanagan, Barry; Siddiqi, Azfar-e-Alam; Iqbal, Kashif; L. Dent, Andrew; Mermin, Jonathan; McCray, Eugene; W. Ward, John; T. Brooks, John

doi:10.1097/qai.0000000000001098

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County-Level Vulnerability Assessment for Rapid Dissemination of HIV or HCV Infections Among Persons Who Inject Drugs, United States

Published in JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes • Jun 2, 2016

Authors:

Michelle M. Van Handel

Charles E. Rose

Elaine Hallisey

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: A recent HIV outbreak in a rural network of persons who inject drugs (PWID) underscored the intersection of the expanding epidemics of opioid abuse, unsterile injection drug use (IDU), and associated increases in hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections. We sought to identify US communities pot...

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Environmental health

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