Global prevalence of injecting drug use and sociodemographic characteristics and prevalence of HIV, HBV, and HCV in people who inject drugs: a multistage systematic review

• Main Authors: Louisa Degenhardt, ProfPhD (Author), Amy Peacock, PhD (Author), Samantha Colledge, BPsychSc[Hons] (Author), Janni Leung, PhD (Author), Jason Grebely, PhD (Author), Peter Vickerman, ProfPhD (Author), Jack Stone, MMathStat (Author), Evan B Cunningham, BSc[Hons] (Author), Adam Trickey, MSc (Author), Kostyantyn Dumchev, MD (Author), Michael Lynskey, ProfPhD (Author), Paul Griffiths, MSc (Author), Richard P Mattick, ProfPhD (Author), Matthew Hickman, ProfPhD (Author), Sarah Larney, PhD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: Background: Sharing of equipment used for injecting drug use (IDU) is a substantial cause of disease burden and a contributor to blood-borne virus transmission. We did a global multistage systematic review to identify the prevalence of IDU among people aged 15-64 years; sociodemographic cha...