Sustained Drug Use Changes After Hepatitis C Screening and Counseling Among Recently Infected Persons Who Inject Drugs: A Longitudinal Study | Zendy

Julie Bruneau | Zendy; Geng Zang | Zendy; Michał Abrahamowicz | Zendy; Didier JutrasAswad | Zendy; Mark Daniel | Zendy; Élise Roy | Zendy

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Sustained Drug Use Changes After Hepatitis C Screening and Counseling Among Recently Infected Persons Who Inject Drugs: A Longitudinal Study

Author(s) -

Julie Bruneau,

Geng Zang,

Michał Abrahamowicz,

Didier JutrasAswad,

Mark Daniel,

Élise Roy

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1093/cid/cit938

Subject(s) - medicine , hepatitis c , heroin , injection drug use , syringe , hepatitis c virus , epidemiology , drug , longitudinal study , immunology , drug injection , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , psychiatry , virus , pathology

Notification of hepatitis C virus (HCV) positive status is known to have short-term impacts on subsequent alcohol, drug use and injection behaviors among persons who inject drugs (PWID). It remains to be established whether postscreening behavioral changes extend over time for PWID and whether screening test notification has behavioral impacts among HCV-negative PWID. This study sought to longitudinally assess substance use and injection behaviors after HCV status notification among HCV seroconverters and HCV-negative PWID.

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