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Infectious Diseases

United States

Homelessness Prevention: The Effect of a Shallow Rent Subsidy Program on Housing Outcomes among People with HIV or AIDS
Lisa K. Dasinger
Richard Speiglman
This paper presents results of an evaluation of Project Independence (PI), a shallow rent subsidy program with services coordination support for very low income people with HIV or AIDS who live in Alameda County in the San Francisco Bay...
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North America
Engagement in the Hepatitis C Care Cascade Among Homeless Veterans, 2015
Amanda J. Noska
Pamela S. Belperio
Timothy P. Loomis
Thomas P. O’Toole
Lisa I. Backus
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the largest provider of hepatitis C virus (HCV) care nationally and provides health care to >200 000 homeless veterans each year. We used the VHA’s Corporate Data Warehouse and HCV Clinical...
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North America
Engaging homeless service providers in educational efforts during a tuberculosis outbreak in Atlanta
Preetha Nandi
Mary Claire Worrell
Tom Andrews
Rose-Marie Sales
Jeff McMichael
Kristen H. Hampton
Neela D. Goswami
During an outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in the homeless population of metropolitan Atlanta, education of homeless service providers (HSPs) about the implementation of local infection control measures was imperative to limiting the spread...
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North America
Use of Activity Space in a Tuberculosis Outbreak: Bringing Homeless Persons into Spatial Analyses
Mary Claire Worrell
Michael Kramer
Aliya Yamin
Susan M. Ray
Neela D. Goswami
Tuberculosis (TB) causes significant morbidity and mortality in U.S. cities, particularly in poor, transient populations. During a TB outbreak in Fulton County, Atlanta, GA, we aimed to determine if local maps created from multiple...
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North America
Residential Status and Transportation Are Associated With Improved Retention in Care for Homeless Patients Testing Positive for Hepatitis C Virus
Stephanie Preston
Frances Lee
Jane Andrews
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is an epidemic that disproportionately affects those removed from the healthcare system. These populations include intravenous drug users (IVDU), incarcerated persons, and the homeless. In addition to...
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North America
Network Approaches to Substance Use and HIV/Hepatitis C Risk among Homeless Youth and Adult Women in the United States: A Review
Kirk Dombrowski
Kelley Sittner
Devan Crawford
Melissa Welch-Lazoritz
Patrick Habecker
Bilal Khan
During the United States economic recession of 2008-2011, the number of homeless and unstably housed people in the United States increased considerably. Homeless adult women and unaccompanied homeless youth make up the most marginal...
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North America
Nursing Case Management, Peer Coaching, and Hepatitis A and B Vaccine Completion Among Homeless Men Recently Released on Parole: Randomized Clinical Trial
Adeline Nyamathi
Benissa E. Salem
Sheldon Zhang
David Farabee
Betsy Hall
Farinaz Khalilifard
Barbara Leake
Although hepatitis A virus (HAV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections are vaccine-preventable diseases, few homeless parolees coming out of prisons and jails have received the hepatitis A and B vaccination series. The study focused on...
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North America
Tuberculosis among the Homeless — Preventing Another Outbreak through Community Action
Vin Gupta
Nancy Sugg
Marite Butners
Gillian Allen-White
Alexandra Molnar
Over the past 20 years, when the United States has seen substantial tuberculosis outbreaks, they have frequently originated in homeless shelters in cities such as Atlanta, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, and Seattle. Although such outbreaks...
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North America
Housing for Infectious TB Patients Who are Homeless: An Alternative Housing Program
C. Turner
M. Chambers
The resurgence of tuberculosis (TB) in the United States in the 1980s and early 1990s has been well documented. This problem was particularly severe in cities such as New York where the TB case rate nearly tripled over a 15-year period...
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North America
Completion and Subject Loss within an Intensive Hepatitis Vaccination Intervention among Homeless Adults: The Role of Risk Factors, Demographics, and Psychosocial Variables
Judith A. Stein
Unprotected sexual behavior, needle sharing, and a prison history are major correlates of Hepatitis B Virus (HBV). These risk factors are common among homeless people who also have elevated rates of HBV. The study examines whether these...
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