"Hepatitis C virus incidence among HIV+ men who have sex with men (MSM): the role of non-injection drug use" Has been accepted for the 76th Annual Meeting of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence. The conference will take place in June 2014, in San Juan, Puerto
Abstract Despite the epidemiological reality of ongoing HIV infection in Puerto Rico, the public health infrastructure related to HIV/AIDS and substance abuse in the territory is severely lacking, as reflected in alarmingly high rates of morbidity/mortality among people who inject drugs (PWID). Because of this, HIV
In November 2013, REACH PIs Dombrowski and Whitbeck applied to the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) for funding to undertakes a national-level survey of HIV and HIV-risk among homeless and unstably housed young people, aged 14-24, in the United States. Its overarching goal is
Network Firewall Dynamics and the Subsaturation Stabilization of HIV Bilal Khan, Kirk Dombrowski, Mohamed Saad, Katherine McLean, and Samuel Friedman Abstract In 2001, Friedman et al. conjectured the existence of a “firewall effect” in which individuals who are infected with HIV, but remain in a state of low
A Re-examination of Connectivity Trends via Exponential Random Graph Modeling in Two IDU Risk Networks SUBSTANCE USE AND MISUSE December 2013, Vol. 48, No. 14 , Pages 1485-1497 Kirk Dombrowski Bilal Khan Katherine McLean Ric Curtis Travis Wendel Evan Misshula Samuel Friedman Abstract: Patterns of risk in injecting drug user (IDU) networks—including co-use, equipment
PI: Holly Hagan (NYU) Investigators: Bilal Khan and Kirk Dombrowski National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIH) has awarded funding to the “Addressing HCV-related hepatocellular carcinoma: the current and future epidemics” project (R01 DA034637-01). Hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related deaths now exceed HIV-related deaths in the US. Throughout the world,
Topological and Historical Considerations for Infectious Disease Transmission among Injecting Drug Users in Bushwick, Brooklyn (USA) Kirk Dombrowski, Richard Curtis, Samuel Friedman, and Bilal Khan Recent interest by physicists in social networks and disease transmission factors has prompted debate over the topology of degree distributions in sexual
Estimating the Size of the Methamphetamine-Using Population in New York City Using Network Sampling Techniques Kirk Dombrowski, Bilal Khan, Travis Wendel, Katherine McLean, Evan Misshula, and Ric Curtis As part of a recent study of the dynamics of the retail market for methamphetamine use in New York
Theory, Measurement and Hard Times: Some Issues for HIV/AIDS Research Economic and political instability and related “big events” are widespread throughout the globe. Although they sometimes lead to epidemic HIV outbreaks, sometimes they do not—and we do not understand why. Current behavioural theories do not adequately