High Hiv Incidence among Drug Users in Hepatitis B Vaccination Project from Inner City Neighborhoods

Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C Virus Infections Among Injecting and Non-Injecting Drug Users in Inner City Neighborhoods

Hepatitis B vaccination and injecting drug users.

This study seeks to test the feasibility of vaccinating injecting drug users for hepatitis B in primary care and to identify predictors of poor immune response. Two hundred and seventy-five injecting drug users were identified from the case notes of a large general practice in an area of high multiple deprivation in northwest Edinburgh and, where appropriate, offered hepatitis B vaccination fol...

Hepatitis B vaccination among children in inner-city public housing, 1991-1997.

CONTEXT In 1991, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended universal vaccination of infants against hepatitis B virus (HBV), with series initiation within days of birth. OBJECTIVE To determine HBV vaccine coverage in a low-income urban population and to examine whether HBV immunization within the first month of life affects subsequent vaccine receipt. DESIGN Cohort study ...

Let It “B”? The Role of Hepatitis B Universal Vaccination among Italian Problematic Drug Users

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) hepatitis is extremely common among problematic drug users (DUs). As of 2012, 47 of the 53 European countries had implemented a universal hepatitis B vaccination programme, a scenario that could radically change its spread. Even so, drug users are still one of the main groups at risk of being infected by HBV, exposing the fact that universal vaccination still has not man...

HIV incidence among injection drug users in Vancouver.