Design and baseline findings of a large-scale rapid response to an HIV outbreak in people who inject drugs in Athens, Greece: the ARISTOTLE programme.

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To (i) describe an intervention implemented in response to the HIV-1 outbreak among people who inject drugs (PWIDs) in Greece (ARISTOTLE programme), (ii) assess its success in identifying and testing this population and (iii) describe socio-demographic characteristics, risk behaviours and access to treatment/prevention, estimate HIV prevalence and identify risk factors, as assessed at the first participation of PWIDs.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Addiction

Title: Addiction (Abingdon, England)

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

ISSN (Electronic): 1360-0443

ISSN (Print): 0965-2140

Publication date (Electronic): Sep 2015

Volume: 110

Issue: 9

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[1 ] Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

[2 ] IAS/NIDA Fellow, Hellenic Center for Diseases Prevention and Control, Athens, Greece.

[3 ] Hellenic Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention, Athens, Greece.

[4 ] Organization Against Drugs, Athens, Greece.

[5 ] Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

[6 ] Department of Propedeutic Medicine, Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

[7 ] European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden.

[8 ] European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, Lisbon, Portugal.

[9 ] Consultant Public Health, Utrecht, the Netherlands.

[10 ] World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark.

[11 ] Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.

[12 ] National Development and Research Institutes, New York, USA.

[13 ] Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, USA.

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Mid ID: NIHMS780697

DOI: 10.1111/add.12999

PMC ID: 4854521

PubMed ID: 26032121

SO-VID: 2b086c35-7880-4c95-a66b-ff46f28797c8

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Keywords: risk factors,HIV outbreak,PWIDs,intervention,prevalence,respondent-driven sampling

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Keywords: risk factors, HIV outbreak, PWIDs, intervention, prevalence, respondent-driven sampling

Design and baseline findings of a large-scale rapid response to an HIV outbreak in people who inject drugs in Athens, Greece: the ARISTOTLE programme.

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