Background Measuring disease and injury burden in populations requires a composite metric
that captures both premature mortality and the prevalence and severity of ill-health. The …

Background Non-fatal health outcomes from diseases and injuries are a crucial consideration
in the promotion and monitoring of individual and population health. The Global Burden of …

Importance Understanding the major health problems in the United States and how they are
changing over time is critical for informing national health policy. Objectives To measure the …

Background Injecting drug use is an important risk factor for transmission of viral hepatitis, but
detailed, transparent estimates of the scale of the issue do not exist. We estimated national…

OBJECTIVES: This study investigated the sharing of drug preparation equipment as a
possible route of hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission. METHODS: HCV seroconversion was …

Background We aimed to assess audio-computer-assisted self-interviewing (audio-CASI)
as a method of reducing under-reporting of HIV risk behaviour among injecting drug users. …

Introduction. High rates of hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission are found in samples of
people who inject drugs (PWID) throughout the world. The objective of this paper was to meta-…

People detained in prisons and other closed settings are at elevated risk of infection with
hepatitis C virus (HCV). We undertook a systematic review and meta‐analysis with the aim of …

… Holly Hagan … Previous reviews have failed to define the frequency of use of the
intervention and/or the coverage of the intervention (defined as the quantity of needles/syringes …

Aims To estimate the effects of needle and syringe programmes (NSP) and opioid substitution
therapy (OST), alone or in combination, for preventing acquisition of hepatitis C virus (HCV…