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| Title |
Drug-related HIV epidemic in Pakistan: a review of current situation and response and the way forward beyond 2015
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| Published in |
Harm Reduction Journal, October 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12954-015-0079-5 |
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| Authors |
Anne Bergenstrom, Baseer Achakzai, Sofia Furqan, Manzoor ul Haq, Rajwal Khan, Marc Saba |
| Abstract |
Pakistan is among four countries in Asia where the estimated number of new HIV infections has been increasing year by year ever since 1990. The Asian Epidemic Modelling (AEM), conducted in 2015, reconfirmed that the use of contaminated injection equipment among people who inject drugs (PWID) remains the main mode of HIV transmission in the country. The estimated number of PWID ranges from 104,804 to 420,000 PWID. HIV prevalence in this population is above 40 % in several cities, including Faisalabad (52.5 %), D.G. Khan (49.6 %), Gujrat (46.2 %), Karachi (42.2 %) and Sargodha (40.6 %), respectively. Harm reduction service delivery is being implemented through a public-private partnership led by the National and Provincial AIDS Control Programmes and Nai Zindagi with funding support from the Global Fund. Current programmatic coverage of the needle and syringe programme, HIV testing and counselling and antiretroviral treatment among PWID remain insufficient to control ongoing transmission of HIV in the country. While opioid substitution therapy (OST) is yet to be introduced, significant progress and coordination among various ministries have taken place recently to register buprenorphine in the dosage required for treatment of opioid dependence, and possible introduction of OST will greatly facilitate adherence to antiretroviral treatment among PWID living with HIV. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 2 | 22% |
| Pakistan | 2 | 22% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 11% |
| Austria | 1 | 11% |
| Philippines | 1 | 11% |
| Unknown | 2 | 22% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 8 | 89% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 11% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 104 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 103 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 19 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 15 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 7% |
| Other | 7 | 7% |
| Other | 18 | 17% |
| Unknown | 25 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 37 | 36% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 11 | 11% |
| Social Sciences | 7 | 7% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 6 | 6% |
| Psychology | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 15 | 14% |
| Unknown | 24 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 August 2019.
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#4,091,441
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Outputs from Harm Reduction Journal
#537
of 1,101 outputs
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#51,458
of 287,134 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Harm Reduction Journal
#10
of 27 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,305,422 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 83rd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,101 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 29.0. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 51% of its peers.
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