Care & Prevent

Promoting skin & soft tissue infection care and preventing AA amyloidosis among people who inject drugs in the UK. 🇬🇧 @LSHTM 🦟🦠

[Care & Prevent @CarePrevent]

Our latest Care & Prevent paper is out! We report on a high prevalence of albuminuria amongst PWID: https://t.co/yaogMqMyow Very proud of this one! @NiceSkunk @WrightTalen @pwidpride @DanCiccarone @JScottUoB @SciReports @nature @DEPTH_LSHTM @LSHTM

[Dr Landon Kuester @LandonKuester]

📣 Excellent opportunity to join a fantastic team @KingsAddictions. Who wouldn’t want to work with @PollyRadcliffe, @HelenCheyne, and @Jo_S_Neale ?! https://t.co/ydqLxczOmL

[Sian Harries @sianharries_]

I don't have a wife or a daughter so it's really weird how I ended up believing all women should be treated with respect.

[Centre for Global Chronic Conditions, LSHTM @LSHTM_CGCC]

Read the excellent thread from @adriannakmurphy asking:

'What could we achieve if resources mobilized for #Covid19 were applied to improving access to other essential medicines?' 💊🤔👏

@MSF_access @ncdalliance @IADA_diabetes @ResolveTSL @LSHTM

[Charlie Witzel @TC_Witzel]

V excited to be on @CBCQuirks discussing trans men & trans women’s experiences of HIV self-testing and sexual health services.

Hope this serves as a regular reminder that it is critical to involve trans people in designing services that meet their needs.

https://t.co/MlEpBVCDTz

[Care & Prevent @CarePrevent]

@ampeckham From your friendly neighbourhood postal worker perhaps?

[Jason Grebely @jasongrebely]

“COVID-19 and the health of people who use drugs: What is and what could be?” Commentary with @Magda_Cerda @tim__rhodes now out highlighting @ijdrugpolicy COVID-19 special issue and emerging evidence on the impact of COVID-19 on the health of PWID - https://t.co/vnhMxCPLKm

[Jenny Scott @JScottUoB]

More practical outcomes from @CarePrevent led by @pwidpride.

[Exchange Supplies @ReducingHarm]

Hot off the press! Written with @pwidpride - more much needed information inspired by the care & prevent study. https://t.co/vs3s9wRu3b

[Magdalena Harris @pwidpride]

Thank you Karen and to @NHS_SPS for the opportunity to present with @JScottUoB on this important topic. Time to revolutionise care for people who use illicit opiates in hospital (and other) settings!

[Tommy Brothers @tdbrothers]

“It’s crucial that water for injection... is made available for the unstably housed & harm reduction messaging is tailored to speak to the everyday realities of people who prepare and inject drugs in public spaces”

@pwidpride @DanCiccarone @CarePrevent

https://t.co/xD6j9PQxVQ

[Dr Talen Wright @TalenEJWright]

@CarePrevent

[ProfVivHope @VivProf]

Worryingly this paper by @LJMUPHI using data from @PHI_IMS indicates that the coverage of needle & syringe programmes in England has halved since the COVID-19 restrictions were introduced https://t.co/iEMpVGsmA4

[Magdalena Harris @pwidpride]

Just out from @CarePrevent! Of our 455 participants, 78% street homeless history, 64% abscess/cellulitis & 47% related hospitalisation. High hospitalisation rates for treatable & preventable conditions highlights a broken & discriminatory system. https://t.co/L7ayyMY855

[Dr Talen Wright @TalenEJWright]

I would also add that people read @pwidpride's paper on delayed healthcare seeking and normalised pain, with interview data taken from the @CarePrevent study. The paper and our participants' words add deeper context than numbers alone could ever provide. https://t.co/OXD24y2iRa

[Dr Talen Wright @TalenEJWright]

Online now!: https://t.co/QTpczRmCGh

New paper from @CarePrevent with fellow co-authors @VivProf @DanCiccarone @danlewer @JScottUoB and @pwidpride 1/3

[Magdalena Harris @pwidpride]

Open access in SSM, pre-proof version. This article means a lot, for so many reasons. Hard & so important to do justice to these heart-rending accounts. Thank you to all the participants & in particular memory of those deceased since we spoke. @CarePrevent https://t.co/fwoD3nmRau

[Magdalena Harris @pwidpride]

Crack & covid advocacy paper published! :) have just changed to open access, might take 24hrs. https://t.co/wZ0xQiSmIU

[Jenny Scott @JScottUoB]

Great presentation from @pwidpride on @CarePrevent work in @SDFnews webinar on care of injecting related wounds. Highlighted role of using too much citric in skin & soft tissue infections in ppl who inject drugs.

[Dialogue Evidence Participation Translation Health @DEPTH_LSHTM]

Check out this #podcast @LSHTM alumni @LandonKuester @KingsCollegeLon who talks with Dr Emily Finch, Addictions Clinical Director @MaudsleyNHS about the impact that #COVID19 #coronavirus is having on access to drug services: https://t.co/2vAuAw3wXr @CarePrevent #health #research

[Magdalena Harris @pwidpride]

Thank you to @DrugAlcoholDep, @PHE_uk for UAM data & @JasonRDoran for conducting the analysis. We found a strong relationship between venous access difficulty and SSTI among PWID in the UK. @VivProf, @WrightTalen , @ellenheinsbroek, @CarePrevent https://t.co/DtlbvME0VX