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"A spray bottle and a lollipop stick": An examination of policy prohibiting sterile injecting equipment in prison and effects on young men with injecting drug use histories

scientific article published on 16 August 2019

"I'm obviously not dying so it's not something I need to sort out today": Considering hepatitis C treatment in the era of direct acting antivirals

scientific article published on 28 November 2018

"Just not all ice users do that": investigating perceptions and potential harms of Australia's Ice Destroys Lives campaign in two studies.

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"That's the Lowest Place on Earth!" Experiences of the Carceral Spaces of Australian Police Custody for Marginalized Young Men

scientific article published on 15 January 2020

"We Might Get Some Free Beers": Experience and Motivation for Transactional Sex Among Behaviorally Bisexual Men in Vientiane, Laos.

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'It's always just there in your face': young people's views on porn

scientific article published on 4 May 2015

A cross-sectional study of emergency department visits by people who inject drugs

scientific article published on 16 July 2012

A response to: Self-reported and actual hepatitis C virus infection status

scientific article published on November 2012

A review of qualitative research inDrug and Alcohol Review

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A study protocol for the N-ICE trial: A randomised double-blind placebo-controlled study of the safety and efficacy of N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC) as a pharmacotherapy for methamphetamine ("ice") dependence.

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Access to needle and syringe programs and the relationship to equipment sharing among people who inject drugs in Kermanshah, Iran

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Achieving a hepatitis C cure: a qualitative exploration of the experiences and meanings of achieving a hepatitis C cure using the direct acting antivirals in Australia

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Adequate Analgesia and Oral Care Attendance in Opiate Dependent Individuals

scientific article published on 05 August 2020

Age-related differences in patterns of criminal activity among a large sample of polydrug injectors in Australia

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An evaluation of a heroin overdose prevention and education campaign

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Australians living with and managing hepatitis C.

scientific article published on August 2010

Barriers to receiving hepatitis C treatment for people who inject drugs: Myths and evidence

scientific article published on July 1, 2011

Behavioural research to inform understanding of hepatitis C resistance.

scientific article published on November 2015

Blood-borne virus transmission in an urban, culturally diverse neighbourhood: results from a cross-sectional bio-behavioural survey using innovative outreach methods in a hard-to-reach population.

scientific article published on 12 October 2017

Broken Symmetries and the Masses of Gauge Bosons

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Broken symmetries, massless particles and gauge fields

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Buprenorphine injection in Melbourne, Australia--an update

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Change in hepatitis C virus genotype in injecting drug users

scientific article published on December 2004

Client-Level Coverage of Needle and Syringe Program and High-Risk Injection Behaviors: A Case Study of People Who Inject Drugs in Kermanshah, Iran

scientific article published on June 2015

Clinical and demographic characteristics of people who smoke versus inject crystalline methamphetamine in Australia: Findings from a pharmacotherapy trial

scientific article published on 06 October 2020

Community-based provision of direct-acting antiviral therapy for hepatitis C: study protocol and challenges of a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 16 July 2018

Community-based, point-of-care hepatitis C testing: perspectives and preferences of people who inject drugs

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Comparing Characteristics of Early-Onset Injection Drug Users to Those With Late-Onset Injection in Kermanshah, Iran

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Comparing Injecting Risk Behaviors of Long-Term Injectors with New Injectors in Tehran, Iran

scientific article published on 26 November 2018

Comparing profile of people who inject drugs (PWID) accessing different types of needle and syringe programs or secondary distribution in Kermanshah, Iran

Concordance between self-reported and actual hepatitis C virus infection status in a cohort of people who inject drugs

scientific article published on 3 September 2012

Dental caries and periodontal disease among people who use drugs: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 10 February 2020

Detection of HCV-Specific IFN-γ Responses in HCV Antibody and HCV RNA Negative Injecting Drug Users

scientific article published on 08 January 2014

Differences in the social networks of ethnic Vietnamese and non-Vietnamese injecting drug users and their implications for blood-borne virus transmission

scientific article published on 17 May 2007

Direct-acting antiviral treatment for HCV.

scientific article published on 15 November 2016

Directly observed hepatitis C treatment with opioid substitution therapy in community pharmacies: A qualitative study

scientific article published on 10 April 2019

Does informing people who inject drugs of their hepatitis C status influence their injecting behaviour? Analysis of the Networks II study

scientific article published on 8 September 2013

Drug use treatment and harm reduction programs in Iran: A unique model of health in the most populated Persian Gulf country

scientific article published on 29 June 2015

Education, skill development and sustainable livelihoods: Situation assessment of India’s drug treatment and rehabilitation centres

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Engagement, reciprocity and advocacy: ethical harm reduction practice in research with injecting drug users

scientific article published in September 2006

Establishing the Melbourne Injecting Drug User Cohort Study (MIX): rationale, methods, and baseline and twelve-month follow-up results

scientific article published on 21 June 2013

Experiences of and attitudes toward injecting drug use among marginalized African migrant and refugee youth in Melbourne, Australia

scientific article published on October 2014

Experiences of liver health related uncertainty and self-reported stress among people who inject drugs living with hepatitis C virus: a qualitative study.

scientific article published on 2 April 2018

Factors Influencing Access to Sexual Health Care Among Behaviorally Bisexual Men in Vientiane, Laos: A Qualitative Exploration.

scientific article published on November 2015

Factors affecting hepatitis C treatment intentions among Aboriginal people in Western Australia: a mixed-methods study

scientific article published on 28 August 2020

Factors affecting self-medication practices among people living with type 2 diabetes in India- A systematic review

scientific article published on 08 December 2020

Factors associated with HIV testing among people who inject drugs Tehran

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Factors associated with HIV testing among people who inject drugs: a meta-analysis

scientific article published on 18 June 2020

Factors associated with injecting-related risk behaviors among people who inject drugs: a systematic review and meta-analysis study

scientific article published on 07 July 2020

Factors influencing a self-limiting HIV outbreak among ethnic Vietnamese injecting drug users in Melbourne, Australia.

scientific article published in December 2009

Field engagement further facilitates hepatitis B vaccination completion

scientific article published on 14 July 2016

Field research contextualizes local risk behaviors in northern Vietnam

scientific article published on 6 January 2015

Five-year Changes in Methamphetamine Use, Dependence, and Remission in a Community-recruited Cohort

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Further research required to determine link between khat consumption and driver impairment

scientific article published on June 2010

Further research required to determine unique factors associated with dental care access among deprived populations

scientific article published on 20 November 2014

Gender, culture and harm: an exploratory study of female heroin users of Vietnamese ethnicity.

scientific article published in October 2008

HIV Risk Perception and Risky Behavior Among People Who Inject Drugs in Kermanshah, Western Iran

scientific article published on 25 January 2017

HIV and drug related stigma and risk-taking behaviors among people who inject drugs: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 31 January 2020

Harm reduction and drug users of Vietnamese ethnicity

article published in 2001

Heavy alcohol consumption among marginalised African refugee young people in Melbourne, Australia: motivations for drinking, experiences of alcohol-related problems and strategies for managing drinking

scientific article published on 14 July 2015

Hepatitis C Virus Seroprevalence and Associated Risk Factors Among Male Drug Injectors in Kermanshah, Iran

Hepatitis C risk perceptions and attitudes towards reinfection among HIV-diagnosed gay and bisexual men in Melbourne, Australia

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Hepatitis C transmission and treatment as prevention - The role of the injecting network.

scientific article published on 21 May 2015

Hepatitis C virus phylogenetic clustering is associated with the social-injecting network in a cohort of people who inject drugs

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Heroin-gel capsule cocktails and groin injecting practices among ethnic Vietnamese in Melbourne, Australia

scientific article published in October 2008

High rates of hepatitis C virus reinfection and spontaneous clearance of reinfection in people who inject drugs: a prospective cohort study.

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How "hidden" are unobserved networks among people who inject drugs?

Impact of HIV Status Notification on Risk Behaviors among Men Who Inject Drugs in Kermanshah, West of Iran

scientific article published on January 2016

Improving hepatitis C direct-acting antiviral access and uptake: a role for patient-reported outcomes and lived-experience

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Increasing amphetamine use and forensic involvement among clients of three residential Indigenous alcohol and other drug services in Victoria, Australia

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Initiation of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Shortly Before Release From Prison to Promote Treatment Retention: Strong Evidence but Compromised Policy

scientific article published on 08 December 2020

Injecting and Sexual Networks and Sociodemographic Factors and Dual HIV Risk among People Who Inject Drugs: A Cross-sectional Study in Kermanshah Province, Iran

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Injecting buprenorphine-naloxone film: Findings from an explorative qualitative study

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Injecting drug use and related health behaviours in a small case series of East African migrants in Melbourne

scientific article published on December 2012

Injecting drug use continues in older drug users too.

scientific article published on 17 October 2017

Injection drug network characteristics as a predictor of injection behaviour

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Integrating enhanced hepatitis C testing and counselling in research

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Internal funding required to improve HIV care

scientific article published on 7 November 2017

It stops with us: Peer responses increase availability of sterile injecting equipment

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Jugular venipuncture and other innovative approaches to phlebotomy among people who inject drugs

scientific article published on 26 August 2015

Letter: new treatments for hepatitis C have implications for quality of life in people who inject drugs

scientific article published in April 2016

Limits to relying on expert information: the Delphi technique in a study of ethnic Vietnamese injection drug users in Melbourne, Australia

scientific article published in September 2009

Longitudinal changes in personal wellbeing in a cohort of people who inject drugs

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Longitudinal changes in psychological distress in a cohort of people who inject drugs in Melbourne, Australia.

scientific article published on 11 September 2016

MY LIFE AS A BOSON: THE STORY OF "THE HIGGS"

Methamphetamine use and HIV risk behavior among men who inject drugs: causal inference using coarsened exact matching

scientific article published on 21 September 2020

Modelling antiviral treatment to prevent hepatitis C infection among people who inject drugs in Victoria, Australia

scientific article published in June 2012

Molecular epidemiology of hepatitis C virus in a social network of injection drug users

scientific article published on 23 September 2004

Motivations for crystal methamphetamine-opioid co-injection/co-use amongst community-recruited people who inject drugs: a qualitative study

scientific article published on 27 February 2020

Narratives of Young Men With Injecting Drug Use Histories Leaving Adult Prison

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New hepatitis C antiviral treatments eliminate the virus

scientific article published on 6 July 2017

No drama: key elements to the success of an HIV/STI-prevention mass-media campaign.

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Non -fatal overdose among people who inject drugs in Tehran, Iran

scientific article published on 14 October 2020

Older injectors: an emerging and under-recognised public health issue.

scientific article published in May 2010

Oral health behavior among school children aged 11-13 years in Saveh, Iran: an evaluation of a theory-driven intervention

scientific article published on 13 October 2020

Oral health-related quality of life among an Australian sample of people who inject drugs

scientific article published on 10 March 2015

Outcomes of Treatment for Hepatitis C in Primary Care, Compared to Hospital-based Care: A Randomized, Controlled Trial in People Who Inject Drugs

scientific article published on 22 June 2019

Patterns of HIV Risks and Related Factors among People Who Inject Drugs in Kermanshah, Iran: A Latent Class Analysis

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Patterns of, and Factors Associated With, Illicit Pharmaceutical Opioid Analgesic Use in a Prospective Cohort of People Who Inject Drugs in Melbourne, Australia.

scientific article published on 17 November 2015

Peer to peer communication about hepatitis C treatment amongst people who inject drugs: A longitudinal qualitative study

scientific article published on 22 October 2020

Pharmacies dispensing opioid substitution therapy also play a role in hepatitis C virus elimination.

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Pharmacy-led hepatitis C treatment pathways to help ensure elimination

scientific article published on 06 December 2018

Prehistory of the Higgs boson

scholarly article by Peter Higgs published November 2007 in Comptes Rendus Physique

Prevalence and correlates of simultaneous, multiple substance injection (co-injection) amongst people who inject drugs in Melbourne, Australia

scientific article published on 08 August 2020

Prevalence and high risk behaviours associated with HCV testing among people who inject drugs: a systematic review and Meta-analysis

scientific article published on 24 August 2020

Prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection and HIV among people who inject drugs in Iran

scientific article published on 20 December 2020

Preventing hepatitis C virus transmission among young people in the justice system

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Prison-based harm reduction measures as part of hepatitis C virus treatment

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Qualitative evaluation of a peer-based needle syringe programme in Vietnam

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Rapid testing for hepatitis C does not infer current infection

Recognition of hepatitis C virus coinfection in HIV-positive injecting drug users in Asia

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Reducing alcohol-related harm in people recently treated for hepatitis C

scientific article published on 14 June 2019

Review article: Rapid review of the emergency department-initiated buprenorphine for opioid use disorder

scientific article published on 21 October 2020

Risk behaviours and blood borne virus exposure for transient workers in rural Victoria

scientific article published in June 2008

Risk behaviours of young Indo-Chinese injecting drug users in Sydney and Melbourne

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Selling syringes to injecting drug users: a study of five pharmacies in Hanoi, Vietnam

scientific article published in February 2008

Severe vein damage caused by Temezepam injecting

scientific article published in February 2002

Social and demographical determinants of quality of life in people who live with HIV/AIDS infection: evidence from a meta-analysis

scientific article published on 18 March 2019

Spontaneous Symmetry Breakdown without Massless Bosons

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The B-VAX Project

The Importance of Immediate Linkage to Health and Social Support Services for Deported Migrants

scientific article published on 29 October 2020

The Medical Treatment Planning and Decisions Act 2016: what is the role for allied health professionals?

scientific article published on 25 September 2020

The development of peer educator-based harm reduction programmes in Northern Vietnam

scientific article published on March 2008

The effect of on-site and outreach-based needle and syringe programs in people who inject drugs in Kermanshah, Iran

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The effects of needle-sharing and opioid substitution therapy on incidence of hepatitis C virus infection and reinfection in people who inject drugs

scientific article published on 8 December 2016

The impact of Victoria's real time prescription monitoring system (SafeScript) on a cohort of people who inject drugs

scientific article published on 21 June 2020

The impact of a police crackdown on a street drug scene: evidence from the street

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The impact of injecting networks on hepatitis C transmission and treatment in people who inject drugs

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The impact of khat use on East African communities in Melbourne: a preliminary investigation

scientific article published on 5 April 2011

The introduction of CCTV and associated changes in heroin purchase and injection settings in Footscray, Victoria, Australia

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The long winding road of opioid substitution therapy implementation in South-East Asia: challenges to scale up

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The prevalence and risk behaviours associated with the transmission of blood-borne viruses among ethnic-Vietnamese injecting drug users.

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The relationship between age and risky injecting behaviours among a sample of Australian people who inject drugs

scientific article published on 9 May 2013

The role of respect in interactions with police among substance-using African refugee young people in Melbourne, Australia

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Theoretical Determination of Electron Density in Organic Molecules

scientific article published in Nature

Treading lightly: Finding the best way to use public health surveillance of hepatitis C diagnoses to increase access to cure

scientific article published on 16 November 2019

Understanding HIV and hepatitis C virus risk among incarcerated young men with histories of injecting drug use

scientific article published on 30 January 2019

Urbanisation and sexual health: understanding bisexually active men in Hanoi, Vietnam

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Vietnam moves forward with harm reduction: an assessment of progress

scientific article published in January 2011

Vietnamese-Australian heroin users’ perspectives on the role of the family in treatment

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Vulnerability among Vietnamese illicit drug users in Australia: challenges for change

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Was this a result you were expecting?

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

What is the alcohol, tobacco, and other drug prevalence among culturally and linguistically diverse groups in the Australian population? A national study of prevalence, harms, and attitudes

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