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Injection of new psychoactive substance snow blow associated with recently acquired HIV infections among homeless people who inject drugs in Dublin, Ireland, 2015

Published:2015-10-08 Issue:40 Volume:20 Page:
ISSN:1560-7917
Container-title:Eurosurveillance
language:en
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Author:

Giese Coralie¹²,Igoe Derval²,Gibbons Zorina³,Hurley Caroline⁴,Stokes Siobhan³,McNamara Sinead³,Ennis Orla⁴,O’Donnell Kate²,Keenan Eamon³,De Gascun Cillian⁵⁶,Lyons Fiona⁷,Ward Mary⁴,Danis Kostas¹⁸,Glynn Ronan⁴,Waters Allison⁵,Fitzgerald Margaret⁴,

Affiliation:

1. European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden

2. HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre, Dublin, Ireland

3. HSE National Drug Treatment Centre, Dublin, Ireland

4. Department of Public Health, Dublin, Ireland

5. National Virus Reference Laboratory, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

6. School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

7. St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

8. French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (Institut de Veille Sanitaire, InVS), Paris, France

Abstract

In February 2015, an outbreak of recently acquired HIV infections among people who inject drugs (PWID) was identified in Dublin, following similar outbreaks in Greece and Romania in 2011. We compared drug and risk behaviours among 15 HIV cases and 39 controls. Injecting a synthetic cathinone, snow blow, was associated with recent HIV infection (AOR: 49; p = 0.003). Prevention and control efforts are underway among PWID in Dublin, but may also be needed elsewhere in Europe.

Publisher

European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC)

Subject

Virology,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Epidemiology

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