Studies on injecting drug use in East Africa are reviewed. The existingstudies document the spread of heroin injection in Kenya and Tanzania, both countries where HIV rates are high. No data from Uganda on injecting drug use was found by the authors. A case study of the growth of heroin in...
have claimed an association between higher dropout rates and disruptive classroom behavior, which leads to substance abuse, poverty, unemployment in adulthood, and academic failure [29]. Given the devastating effects of teenage substance misuse on physical and mental health, there is a need to focus...
an unknown problem in Austria. The results of our study contribute to the growing literature that point to the emerging issues of substance abuse among the PLWHIV. Our results indicate that PLWHIV who use illicit drugs feel knowledgeable about HIV and drug use, which might indicate that public...
(2002). Revisiting Sub-Saharan African countries' drug problems: health, social, economic costs, and drug control policy. Substance use and misuse, 37(3), 265-90.Affinnih YH. Revisiting Sub-Saharan African countries‟ drug problems: health, social, econo- mic costs, and drug control policy...
Alcohol and Illicit Drug Abuse and the Risk of Violent Death in the Home While acute alcohol and illicit drug use are common in homicide and suicide victims, the role of chronic substance use in violent death is unclear. To meas... Rivara,P Frederick - 《Jama the Journal of the American...
The impact of illicit drug use and substance abuse treatment on adherence to HAART. High levels of adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) are essential for virologic suppression and longer survival in patients with HIV. ... PL Hicks,KP Mulvey,G Chander,... - 《Aids Care》...
Features and challenges of alcohol abuse treatment in Uganda Although alcoholic beverages have existed for long in traditional societies in Africa,across the continent, recent studies that categorize the majority of ... David Kalema,W. Vanderplasschen - African journal of drug and alcohol studies 被...
As with TB and HIV-1, resistance to some drugs has been documented almost simultaneously with drug introduction (Hyde, 2005). The rate at which resistance develops depends on the mutation rate, the number of mutations needed to confer resistance, the use and abuse of the antimalarial drug, ...
The Brazilian response towards AIDS epidemic is well known, but the absence of a systematic review of vulnerable populations ─ men who have sex with men (MSM), female sex workers (FSW), and drug users (DU) remains a main gap in the available literature. Our goal was to conduct a system...
Prevalence and Correlates of Substance Use Among Youth Living with HIV in Fishing Communities in Uganda Alcohol and drug use (ADU) poses a significant barrier to optimal HIV treatment outcomes for adolescents and youths living with HIV (AYLHIV). We aimed to i... R Brathwaite,M Mutumba,S Nann...