Vaccine Challenges Injection Drug Users

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Syringe Disinfection for Injection Drug Users

How Did Disinfection Become a Widely-Used HIV Prevention Strategy? How Disinfection Can Reduce Transmission Risk: It Reduces the Number of Viruses and It Kills Them Does Disinfection Work Against Viral Hepatitis? Disinfection Seems to Make Sense.... Read more »

Efforts to Curb HIV Among Drug Users in Vietnam Show Success, Still Face Challenges

The Vietnamese government's efforts to increase access to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programs among injection drug users are showing success, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to the Journal , the country is attempting to bolster... Read more »

Study: One out of Five Injecting Drug Users Worldwide Believed to Be HIV-Positive

New estimates by an international panel of experts calculate that nearly 16 million people in the world are injection drug users (IDUs), and about 20 percent of them are believed to be HIV-positive. The researchers, Dr. Bradley M. Mathers of the... Read more »

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Co-infected Injection Drug User...Drug Toxicity and Liver Care

I am a co-infected injection drug user and want to reduce the damage that i am doing to my liver. I use multiple substances and have no intention of being "drug-free" at this time. I know that alcohol is the most toxic to my liver,...

Response from Douglas T. Dieterich, M.D.

New York University, School of Medicine

This is a tough one. Most of those are toxic in one way or another, but not particularly liver toxic. The only ones that are really liver dangerous are ectasy and special K. The others are all dangerous, but not usually to the liver. Marijuana is... Read more »

Injecting Drug Users (IDUs) and HIV statistics

what is the percentage of people contacting aids/hiv through dirty needles?...

Response from Rick Sowadsky, M.P.H.

Nevada State Health Division AIDS Program

Thank you for your question. Let me show you some statistics to give you a general idea of the percentage of people who have become infected with HIV specifically through sharing IV drug needles. These statistics do not include people who became... Read more »

Injecting drug user - very worried

I have been addicted to heroin for 3 years and yesterday found out that I am HIV+. I think I got it from a sex worker. Will heroin affect my ability to fight off this virus? ...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,Thanks for your question. My response may come as a surprise to some readers. Most well-designed epidemiological studies of HIV-positive folks in the pre-HAART era have demonstrated no difference in the progression of HIV to AIDS and death... Read more »

im not a drug user

i have slept with a feamle that has hep_c and we also use the same needle for a tatoo could i have this ?...

Response from Barbara McGovern, M.D.

Tufts University School of Medicine

Absolutely.I would definitely get tested.Dr. McGovern... Read more »

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iv drug user hiv hep c syphillis

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

If you had sex with iv drug user would it take longer to show up hiv positive? Could you go into neurosyphillis within months
please help Read more »

Sexual transmission from IV drug user

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

I've heard that the only people who need to test beyond the standard 3 month window are IV drug users.

So here's a good question: What if someone had a risky sexual encounter with an IV drug user (HIV+ because of drug use)? Would that mean they... Read more »

Injection Users

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

to the guy who shot up dope with the person who is HIV Positive if you dont get HIV from this then you dodged a bullet Read more »

Organ Transplant & Drug Users Window Period

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Why do people with transplants and drug users have a longer window period? - I'm assuming it is because their body is not strong enough to build antibodies. If stress can do so much to people as everybody says, then why isn't stress in this group?

Doe... Read more »

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