In an effort to dismantle the open drug market and improve public order, a large-scale police
initiative named the Citywide Enforcement Team (CET), began in Vancouver's Downtown …

The objective of this study was to compare sociodemographic, drug, and sexual risk characteristics
between hepatitis C virus (HCV) baseline positive and negative young (13-24 years) …

Background: In 1997, we found a higher prevalence of HIV among female than among male
injection drug users in Vancouver. Factors associated with HIV incidence among women in …

Background: In several European countries safer injecting rooms have reduced the public
disorder and health-related problems of injection drug use. We explored factors associated …

Background: Because of established links between entrenched poverty and risk of HIV
infection, there have long been warnings that HIV/AIDS will disproportionately affect Aboriginal …

We sought to examine the relationship between housing status and risk of HIV-infection
among injection drug users in Vancouver, Canada. Using Kaplan–Meier survival analysis, we …

Background: Law enforcement is often used in an effort to reduce the social, community and
health-related harms of illicit drug use by injection drug users (IDUs). There are, however, …

Recent Indigenist scholarship has situated high rates of traumatic life experiences, including
sexual abuse, among Indigenous peoples of North America within the larger context of their …

In Canada, very little is known about the factors and processes that cause drug-related harm
among female intravenous drug users (IDUs). Women who inject drugs and participate in …

Vancouver has experienced an explosive HIV epidemic despite the presence of a needle
exchange programme (NEP). We sought possible explanations for high-risk syringe sharing …