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Seroprevalence of specific antibodies to Treponema pallidum in blood donors with DNA confirmation of seropositivity.
Cell Mol Biol (Noisy-le-grand)
January 2025
Swedish Board Member of General Surgery, Kurdistan Higher Council of Medical Specialties, Erbil, Iraq.
The rising global incidence of syphilis underscores the risk of transmission through blood transfusions. Treponema pallidum, the pathogen responsible for syphilis, represents a major public health challenge. Accurate detection is essential for controlling the disease, particularly in asymptomatic blood donors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTrends and characteristics in ketamine use among US adults with and without depression, 2015-2022.
J Affect Disord
December 2024
NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Department of Population Health, 180 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA.
Background: Ketamine's potential for treating depression has drawn increased clinical interest in recent years. However, despite growing therapeutic use, recreational use among individuals with depression remain underexplored.
Methods: We analyzed data from the 2015-2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health focusing on adults in the US.
Effect of depressive symptoms on health services utilization in the HIV and hepatitis C co-infected population in Canada.
AIDS Care
February 2025
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Depression is common among people living with HCV and HIV, which contributes to health services utilization (HSU). It is unknown whether successful HCV treatment affects this. We examined depressive symptoms and HSU in people co-infected with HIV-HCV and their association with sustained virologic response (SVR) during the direct-acting antiviral era.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF"I still can feel the sickness": Withdrawal experiences of people on methadone maintenance treatment.
J Subst Use Addict Treat
December 2024
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA; Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research, School of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA.
Introduction: Opioid withdrawal is a regular occurrence for many people who use illicit opioids (PWUIO) involving acute physical and psychological pain. Yet, there is very little data on the withdrawal experience of people in methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) and almost none from the patients' experience. Learning more about patients' withdrawal experiences can help to inform policies and practices that are better suited to address withdrawal and may improve patient satisfaction as well as uptake and retention.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: Aim of the pilot was to increase HIV/HCV/syphilis testing and linkage to care of newly diagnosed persons, improve data collection and transfer using standard data collection tools in CBVCT services.
Methods: Integrated anonymous voluntary testing from blood for HIV, HCV and syphilis was realised using rapid tests in the period of 6 months (03/2019-08/2019). Participants with reactive results were advised to see a specialist for confirmatory testing and/or treatment.
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