Publications by authors named "M Torres-Leguizamon"
Introduction: Hormone therapy (HT) adherence practices among trans people are poorly studied. For a large proportion of these people, HT is administered parenterally. The unavailability of certain treatments in France, combined with poor institutional care, keeps injectors away from the health care system and encourages potentially risky injection practices.
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- Harm Reduction (HR) policies for People Who Use Drugs (PWUD) improve health outcomes by reducing infections and overdose deaths, but access was impacted by the COVID-19 lockdowns in France and the USA.
- Remote HR programs like HaRePo (France) and NEXT Distro (USA) were created to help those who couldn't access in-person services, allowing users to get support via phone, email, or website.
- A study found that both remote programs saw significant increases in new users and parcel distributions during the pandemic, indicating they helped alleviate some of the access barriers caused by COVID-19.
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- Despite existing harm reduction programs, many people who use drugs (PWUD) struggle to access services due to factors like remoteness, costs, and fear of judgment, prompting the development of a new approach using remote communication and postal distribution to improve access to harm reduction tools.
- The SAFE association launched HaRePo in 2011, a free, confidential program allowing PWUD to receive counseling and harm reduction supplies through phone and email, with items sent via the French postal service.
- Since its inception, HaRePo has assisted 1,920 PWUD, leading to significant increases in safe practices regarding syringe use and improvements in beneficiaries' overall physical health, with many reporting that their drug-related practices have become safer. *
Landscape features are known to alter the spatial genetic variation of aboveground organisms. Here, we tested the hypothesis that the genetic structure of belowground organisms also responds to landscape structure. Microsatellite markers were used to carry out a landscape genetic study of two endogeic earthworm species, Allolobophora chlorotica (N = 440, eight microsatellites) and Aporrectodea icterica (N = 519, seven microsatellites), in an agricultural landscape in the North of France, where landscape features were characterized with high accuracy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDespite the fundamental role that soil invertebrates (e.g. earthworms) play in soil ecosystems, the magnitude of their spatial genetic variation is still largely unknown and only a few studies have investigated the population genetic structure of these organisms.
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