The perfect storm: incarceration and the high-risk environment perpetuating transmission of HIV, hepatitis C virus, and tuberculosis in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

FL Altice, L Azbel, J Stone, E Brooks-Pollock… - The Lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
Despite global reductions in HIV incidence and mortality, the 15 UNAIDS-designated
countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) that gained independence from the …

[HTML][HTML] Incarceration history and risk of HIV and hepatitis C virus acquisition among people who inject drugs: a systematic review and meta-analysis

J Stone, H Fraser, AG Lim, JG Walker… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background People who inject drugs (PWID) experience a high prevalence of incarceration
and might be at high risk of HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection during or after …

Unified European support framework to sustain the HIV cascade of care for people living with HIV including in displaced populations of war-struck Ukraine

M Vasylyev, A Skrzat-Klapaczyńska, JI Bernardino… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Ukraine is one of the countries in Europe most affected by HIV. The escalation of open war
on the European continent has affected HIV care in Ukraine in an unprecedented way …

Challenges posed by COVID‐19 to people who inject drugs and lessons from other outbreaks

TI Vasylyeva, P Smyrnov, S Strathdee… - African Journal of …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Introduction: In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, considerable effort is going into identifying
and protecting those at risk. Criminalization, stigmatization and the psychological, physical …

[HTML][HTML] A network intervention that locates and intervenes with recently HIV-infected persons: The Transmission Reduction Intervention Project (TRIP)

GK Nikolopoulos, E Pavlitina, SQ Muth, J Schneider… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Early treatment, soon after infection, reduces HIV transmissions and benefits patients. The
Transmission Reduction Intervention Project (TRIP) evaluated a network intervention to …

Molecular epidemiology reveals the role of war in the spread of HIV in Ukraine

TI Vasylyeva, M Liulchuk… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Ukraine has one of the largest HIV epidemics in Europe, historically driven by people who
inject drugs (PWID). The epidemic showed signs of stabilization in 2012, but the recent war …

Socially-integrated transdisciplinary HIV prevention

SR Friedman, MJ Downing, P Smyrnov… - AIDS and Behavior, 2014 - Springer
Current ideas about HIV prevention include a mixture of primarily biomedical interventions,
socio-mechanical interventions such as sterile syringe and condom distribution, and …

Risk network approaches to locating undiagnosed HIV cases in Odessa, Ukraine

P Smyrnov, LD Williams, A Korobchuk… - Journal of the …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Providing HIV healthcare and Treatment as Prevention both depend on
diagnosing HIV cases, preferably soon after initial infection. We hypothesized that tracing …

Modelling the intervention effect of opioid agonist treatment on multiple mortality outcomes in people who inject drugs: a three-setting analysis

J Stone, L Degenhardt, J Grebely, S Larney… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Opioid agonist treatment (OAT) reduces many of the harms associated with
opioid dependence. We use mathematical modelling to comprehensively evaluate the …

A network intervention to locate newly HIV infected persons within MSM networks in Chicago

E Morgan, B Skaathun, GK Nikolopoulos… - AIDS and Behavior, 2019 - Springer
Individuals with recent/acute HIV-infection have an increased likelihood of disease
transmission. To evaluate effectiveness of identifying recent infections, we compared …