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June 19, 2024International Journal of Drug PolicyOpen Access

Water, sanitation and hygiene insecurity predict abscess incidence among people who inject drugs in a binational US–Mexico metropolitan area: A longitudinal cohort study

Alhelí Calderón-Villarreal Daniela Abramovitz Lourdes Johanna Avelar Portillo Shira M. Goldenberg Shawn Flanigan Penelope J E Quintana Alicia Harvey-Vera Carlos F. Vera Gudelia Rangel Steffanie A. Strathdee Georgia Kayser

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Abstract

People who inject drugs (PWID) are at high risk of developing injection-related infections, including abscesses. Access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) are key human rights and services; yet these services have been underexplored as predictors of abscesses among PWID.

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Calderón-Villarreal et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e6417fb6db6435875d2e11 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104485

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