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Iryna Pykalo

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Machavariani E, Bromberg D, Dumchev K, Esserman D, Earnshaw V, Pykalo I, et al.
Int J Drug Policy . 2024 Dec; 136:104682. PMID: 39705875
Introduction: People who inject drugs experience poor health and social outcomes which improve with opioid agonist therapies like methadone, yet provider stigma may influence healthcare utilization. In Ukraine, integrating methadone...
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Bromberg D, Rhoades D, Madden L, Ivasiy R, Meteliuk A, Pykalo I, et al.
AIDS . 2024 Nov; 39(3):306-311. PMID: 39589135
Background: Ukraine's HIV epidemic, the second-largest in Europe, is concentrated among people who inject drugs (PWID), primarily opioids. Between 2014 and 2021, Ukraine has scaled up opioid agonist therapies (OAT)...
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Machavariani E, Dumchev K, Pykalo I, Filippovych M, Ivasiy R, Esserman D, et al.
Contemp Clin Trials . 2024 Sep; 146:107690. PMID: 39265780
Introduction: Ukraine has high HIV prevalence, concentrated among people who inject drugs (PWID), mostly of opioids. Maintenance on opioid agonist therapies (OAT) is the most effective evidence-based treatment for opioid...
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Ottesen T, Wickersham J, Lawrence J, Antoniak S, Zezuilin O, Polonsky M, et al.
PLoS One . 2024 Jul; 19(7):e0305086. PMID: 39028735
Background: HIV incidence and mortality are increasing in Ukraine despite their reductions globally, in part due to suboptimal antiretroviral therapy (ART) coverage in key populations of people with HIV (PWH)...
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Zeziulin O, Kornilova M, Deac A, Morozova O, Varetska O, Pykalo I, et al.
PLoS One . 2024 Jun; 19(6):e0305072. PMID: 38923979
Background: Ukraine has the second-largest HIV epidemic in Europe, with most new cases officially attributed to heterosexual transmission. Indirect evidence suggested substantial HIV transmission from people who inject drugs (PWID)...
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Bromberg D, Machavariani E, Madden L, Dumchev K, LaMonaca K, Earnshaw V, et al.
J Int AIDS Soc . 2024 Feb; 27(2):e26202. PMID: 38379179
Introduction: Stigma has undermined the scale-up of evidence-based HIV prevention and treatment. Negative beliefs influence clinicians' discriminatory behaviour and ultimately have wide-ranging effects across the HIV prevention and treatment continuum....
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Bromberg D, Madden L, Fraenkel L, Muthulingam D, Rhoades D, Dvoriak S, et al.
PLOS Glob Public Health . 2024 Jan; 4(1):e0002725. PMID: 38277422
Scaling up opioid agonist therapies (OAT) is the most effective strategy to control combined HIV and opioid epidemics, especially in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA), where HIV incidence and...
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Mazhnaya A, Meteliuk A, Pykalo I, Altice F
Front Public Health . 2024 Jan; 11:1238188. PMID: 38162610
Introduction: Following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation on 24 February 2022, over 6,000 patients were at risk of potential disruptions in treatment with medications for opioid...
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Ponticiello M, Azbel L, Tate M, Bromberg D, Pykalo I, Kiriazova T, et al.
Front Psychiatry . 2023 Dec; 14:1227216. PMID: 38098632
Background: After pilot testing, methadone was newly being introduced into Ukrainian prisons in 2021 as part of a national scale-up strategy to treat opioid use disorder and prevent transmission of...
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Nikitin B, Bromberg D, Pykalo I, Ivasiy R, Islam Z, Altice F
Front Public Health . 2023 Dec; 11:1229057. PMID: 38074770
Introduction: The widespread HIV epidemic in Ukraine is concentrated among people who inject drugs (PWID), making access to sterile injection paraphernalia (SIP) like sterile needles and syringes a critical method...