Injecting drug use, incarceration, infection: investigating opportunities for public health interventions in disadvantaged populations

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/GNT1054244

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

New knowledge required to address infectious diseases and mental illness among two disadvantaged and overlapping groups -people who inject drugs (PWID) and prisoners – will be produced: Cross sectional and longitudinal studies will examine HIV risk in specific populations; A system to track the emergence of injecting will be developed; The global scale of mental illness and TB among PWID will be determined; and how to improve coverage and delivery of TB prevention and treatment will be explored.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2013

End Date: 01-01-2016

Funding Scheme: Early Career Fellowships

Funding Amount: $329,564.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Epidemiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

drug use | epidemiology | hepatitis C infection | human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) | injecting drug use | mental health | prison population | tuberculosis

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