Rationalities of Space and Drug-Related Harms: Accounts of People Who Inject Drugs in Nigeria.

Background: Studies have examined how people who inject drugs (PWID) navigate public spaces for drug consumption, but little is known about consumption of drugs in private apartments. This study explores social, structural and physical environment factors influencing injecting practices and the rationalities shaping how PWID make decisions about where to consume drugs.

Methods: The study is based on qualitative data from 41 in-depth interviews conducted with both homeless and housed PWID recruited through snowball sampling in Uyo, Nigeria.

Structural violence and barriers to pain management during an opioid crisis: accounts of women who use drugs in Nigeria.

Chronic pain management among marginalised populations have been extensively researched in North America, particularly amidst the opioid crisis. But little published research exists on this subject from Africa. This study explored experiences and management of chronic pain among marginalised women in the context of regulation of opioid prescribing using data from 16 qualitative interviews with women who use drugs (WWUD) in Uyo, Nigeria.

Intersectional analysis of cannabis use, stigma and health among marginalized Nigerian women.

Cannabis use by women has been under-researched, particularly use by marginalized women in developing societies. This article draws on qualitative research in Uyo, Nigeria, to explore how intersecting stigmas around social identity categories (e.g.

Structural inequities, HIV vulnerability and women's agency: Street-based sex workers in Nigeria.

Drawing from thematic analysis of qualitative data from 27 in-depth interviews with cisgender women street-based sex workers recruited through snowball sampling in Uyo, Nigeria, this article explores structural inequities, HIV vulnerability and women's agency. Structural and gendered inequities influenced women's decision to enter street-based sex work and created conditions that facilitated substance use and increased vulnerability to violence, unprotected sex and HIV transmission. Although women's agency and creative negotiation of structural forces offered possibilities for increased choices, their routine coping strategies ultimately posed as sources of risks.