Opioid agonist treatment scale-up and the initiation of injection drug use: A dynamic modeling analysis.

Charles Marks Annick BorquezSonia JainXiaoying SunSteffanie A Strathdee Richard S Garfein Michael John Milloy Kora DeBeck Javier A Cepeda Daniel Werb Natasha K Martin

Published in: PLoS medicine (2019)

In addition to its known benefits on preventing HIV, hepatitis C virus (HCV), and overdose among PWID, our modeling suggests that OAT scale-up may also reduce the number of IDU initiations and PWID population size.

Keyphrases

hepatitis c virus
human immunodeficiency virus
chronic pain

pain management
hiv positive
hiv aids

ultrasound guided
hiv testing
south africa

replacement therapy
smoking cessation