Publications by authors named "P A Kazerooni"
Characterizing people who inject drugs with no history of opioid agonist therapy uptake in Iran: Results from a national bio-behavioural surveillance survey in 2020.
Int J Ment Health Addict
August 2024
Injection drug use is the primary driver of the human immunodeficiency virus HIV epidemic in Iran. We characterized people who inject drugs (PWID) living in Iran who had never received opioid agonist therapy (OAT) and examined barriers to OAT uptake. We recruited 2,684 PWID with a history of drug injection in the previous 12 months using a respondent-driven sampling approach from 11 geographically dispersed cities in Iran.
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- The research investigates job satisfaction among employees and therapists in Voluntary, Counseling, and Testing Centers compared to Health Centers across nine provinces in Iran.
- A total of 103 staff members from Health Centers were compared to employees from the Voluntary Centers using the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ).
- The study found that about 50.5% of Health Center employees and 54% of Voluntary Center employees reported high job satisfaction, with the highest satisfaction in Fars and Kurdistan provinces, and the lowest in Kermanshah and Bushehr.
Despite the overall decline in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence, it remains unacceptably high in key populations. This study aimed to estimate prevalence of HIV infection and high-risk behaviors among female sex workers (FSWs). This study was a cross-sectional survey of FSWs conducted between December 2019 and August 2020 in eight geographically diverse cities in Iran.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of using the HIV self-test in high-risk Iranian groups (MSM, FSWs, and TGs).
Methods: This study was a mixed study designed as a quantitative-qualitative study conducted between October 1, 2020, and June 22, 2021, in Tehran and Karaj, Iran. The sample size needed for this study generally was 1000 people, including FSWs, MSM, and transgender individuals.
Injection drug use has been the leading route of HIV transmission in Iran. We assessed HIV prevalence, risk behaviors, and uptake of prevention services among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Iran between 2010 and 2020. We also examined the individual and environmental determinants of HIV among PWID.
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