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WHO Survey Coordinating Center, Drug Injecting Study-Phase 2
Funding Source: World Health Organization
Funding Period: 2000-2013
Principal Investigator: Don C. Des Jarlais, Ph.D.
This study focuses on HIV infection among IDUs, but also addresses other problems of international importance, including other "emerging/re-emerging" infectious diseases (such as HCV), overdoses, and transitions between NIU and IDU. The study involves the combined use of Rapid Assessment and Response (RAR) methods plus a Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Survey of drug users coupled with serological testing for HIV, HBV and HCV. Dr. Don Des Jarlais of CDUHR comprise the NYC Survey Coordinating Center (NYC-SCC) responsible for coordination of the multi-city survey in cooperation with WHO and in consultation with the Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour (CRDHB) at Imperial College School of Medicine in London.
The participating sites include:
- Argentina (Great Rosario)
- Belarus (Minsk)
- Brazil (Rio de Janeiro & Santos)
- China (Beijing)
- Colombia (Bogota)
- Iran (Tehran)
- Kenya (Nairobi)
- Malaysia (Penang)
- Nigeria (Lagos)
- Russian Federation (St. Petersburg)
- Thailand (Bangkok)
- Ukraine (Kharkiv)
- Vietnam (Hanoi)
Click here for additional information on the study on the World Health Organization's website.
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Cleland, C. M., Des Jarlais, D. C., Perlis, T. E., Stimson, G., & Poznyak, V. (2007). HIV risk behaviors among female IDUs in developing and transitional countries. BMC Public Health, 7, 271.
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Stimson, G. V., Fitch, C., Des Jarlais, D., Poznyak, V., Perlis, T., Oppenheimer, E., & Rhodes, T. (2006). Rapid assessment and response studies of injection drug use: Knowledge gain, capacity building, and intervention development in a multisite study. American Journal of Public Health, 96 (2), 288-295.
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Des Jarlais, D. C., & Semaan, S. (2005). Interventions to reduce the sexual risk behaviour of injecting drug users. International Journal of Drug Policy, 16 (Supplement 1), S58-S66.
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Hacker, M. A., Friedman, S. R., Telles, P. R., Teixeira, S. L., Bongertz, V., Morgado, M. G., & Bastos, F. I. (2005). The role of “long-term” and “new” injectors in a declining HIV/AIDS epidemic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Substance Use and Misuse, 40 (1), 99-123.
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