Challenges posed by COVID‐19 to people who inject drugs and lessons from other outbreaks

Introduction In light of the COVID‐19 pandemic, considerable effort is going into identifying and protecting those at risk. Criminalization, stigmatization and the psychological, physical, behavioural and economic consequences of substance use make people who inject drugs (PWID) extremely vulnerable...

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Published in:	Journal of the International AIDS Society Vol. 23; no. 7; pp. e25583 - n/a
Main Authors:	Vasylyeva, Tetyana I, Smyrnov, Pavlo, Strathdee, Steffanie, Friedman, Samuel R
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Switzerland John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.07.2020 John Wiley and Sons Inc
Subjects:	Acquired immune deficiency syndrome Adult AIDS Betacoronavirus Care and treatment Communicable diseases Coronavirus Infections - complications COVID-19 Disease Outbreaks Drug addicts Drug Overdose - epidemiology Drug trafficking Drug use Epidemics Harm reduction Hepatitis Heroin HIV HIV Infections - complications HIV Infections - epidemiology Homeless people Homelessness Human immunodeficiency virus Humans Hygiene Ill-Housed Persons - statistics & numerical data Imprisonment inequality Infections infectious disease Infectious diseases Injections - adverse effects Liver diseases Living conditions Male Narcotics outbreak Outbreaks Pandemics Pathogens people who inject drugs Pneumonia, Viral - complications Prevention Prison overcrowding Public health Quarantine Risk Factors SARS-CoV-2 Sexually transmitted diseases Social aspects Social distancing STD Substance Abuse, Intravenous - complications Substance use Tuberculosis United Kingdom Unsafe Sex - statistics & numerical data Viruses United Kingdom Afghanistan Iran United States > US Europe COVID-19 inequality outbreak infectious disease people who inject drugs harm reduction
ISSN:	1758-2652, 1758-2652
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