| prevalence of hiv, hepatitis c and syphilis among injecting drug users in russia: a multi-city study. | to estimate the prevalence of hiv, hepatitis c virus (hcv) and syphilis in injecting drug users (idus) in russia. | 2006 | 16445554 |
| drug injecting and syringe use in the hiv risk environment of russian penitentiary institutions: qualitative study. | evidence highlights the prison as a high risk environment in relation to human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) and hepatitis c virus (hcv) transmission associated with injecting drug use. | 2006 | 17156178 |
| epidemiological networks and drug resistance of hiv type 1 in krasnoyarsk region, russia. | to study the molecular epidemiology of hiv-1 in krasnoyarsk region, russia, where hiv-1 has spread rapidly since 2000, we obtained pol sequences from individuals living in this region (n = 67) as well as in the geographically closely related altay region (n = 13). in both regions, subtype a viruses specific for the former soviet union (idu-a strains) were dominant (92.5%). virus sequences clustered according to the geographic origin of the infected individuals rather than to their risk group, de ... | 2009 | 19689192 |