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Publications
An analysis of One Health timeliness metrics across multisectoral public health emergencies in Uganda.
Communications medicine
Barriers to seeking and delivery of essential health services in nine provinces of Afghanistan during the COVID-19 pandemic: community health workers' perspective.
BMC health services research
Methamphetamine use and associated factors among people who inject drugs in Iran 2020.
Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy
HIV Incidence among People Who Inject Drugs, San Francisco, 2022.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)
Correlates of duration between initial drug use and first drug injection among people who inject drugs in Iran, 2020.
BMC public health
Very High Levels of Violent Discipline Among Children in Afghanistan: Prevalence, Determinants, and Socioeconomic Disparities.
Research square
Recent HIV testing and self-reported HIV prevalence among men who inject drugs in Afghanistan: a nationwide survey in 2019-2020.
Harm reduction journal
Cost-effectiveness of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis among female sex workers in Iran.
Scientific reports
Cannabis Dependence Among Georgian Small-Scale Cannabis Growers: Results of a Cross-Sectional Online Survey.
Journal of psychoactive drugs
Barriers and facilitators of HIV partner status notification in low- and lower-middle-income countries: A mixed-methods systematic review.
BMC infectious diseases
Uptake of COVID-19 Vaccination and Related Factors Among People who Inject Drugs, San Francisco, 2022.
AIDS and behavior
Facilitators and barriers of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis use among four key populations in Iran.
BMC health services research
Correction: Non-injection drug use among incarcerated people in Iran: Findings from three consecutive national bio-behavioral surveys.
Harm reduction journal
Non-injection drug use among incarcerated people in Iran: Findings from three consecutive national bio-behavioral surveys.
Harm reduction journal
Prevalence of hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and tuberculosis among people living with HIV in Iran: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
BMC infectious diseases
Correlates of viral suppression among sexual minority men and transgender women living with HIV in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
PLOS global public health
Effect of wildfire on the prevalence of opioid misuse through anxiety among young adults in the United States: a modeling study.
BMC public health
A Major Gap Between the Knowledge and Practice of Mothers Towards Early Initiation and Exclusive Breastfeeding in Afghanistan in 2021.
Maternal and child health journal
A qualitative study exploring approaches, barriers, and facilitators of the HIV partner notification program in Kerman, Iran.
BMC health services research
Comparison of safety and effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy regimens among pregnant women living with HIV at preconception or during pregnancy: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized trials.
BMC infectious diseases
Uptake of Human Papilloma Virus vaccine among young women living in fishing communities in Wakiso and Mukono districts, Uganda.
PLOS global public health
Effect of wildfire on the prevalence of opioid misuse through anxiety among young adults in the United States: A modeling study.
Research square
Prevalence of acquired and transmitted HIV drug resistance in Iran: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
BMC infectious diseases
A Cascade Analysis of Community Transmission Risks for HIV among People Who Inject Drugs Living with HIV in Iran.
Biomedical and environmental sciences : BES
Injection cessation and relapse to injection and the associated factors among people who inject drugs in Iran: The Rostam study.
Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy
Increase in human immunodeficiency virus and syphilis prevalence and incidence among men who have sex with men, vietnam 2015 - 2020.
International journal of STD & AIDS
Awareness and willingness to use HIV self-testing among people who inject drugs in Iran.
Harm reduction journal
Complementary and alternative medicine use among people living with HIV in Shiraz, Southern Iran.
Frontiers in public health
Authorship equity in global health research: who gets the credit at University of California, San Francisco?
BMJ global health
Barriers and gaps in tuberculosis care and treatment in Iran: A multi-center qualitative study.
Journal of clinical tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases
Explainable synthetic image generation to improve risk assessment of rare pediatric heart transplant rejection.
Journal of biomedical informatics
HIV Continuum of Care Among People Who Inject Drugs in Iran, a Cross-Sectional Study.
The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC
Hepatitis C virus prevalence, determinants, and cascade of care among people who inject drugs in Iran.
Drug and alcohol dependence
Sexualized Substance Use among Female Sex Workers in Iran: Findings from a Nationwide Survey.
Substance use & misuse
Characterizing people who inject drugs with no history of opioid agonist therapy uptake in Iran: Results from a national bio-behavioural surveillance survey in 2020.
International journal of mental health and addiction
Obesity Mediates the Effect of Past and Current Mental Health on Diabetes Treatment Outcomes.
Iranian journal of public health
An Evaluation of The Diagnostic Value of Sputum Smears Microscopy and Pcr Relative to Sputum Culture in The Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis in Iran.
Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Excess deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran.
Infectious diseases (London, England)
Population Size Estimation of People Who Use Illicit Drugs and Alcohol in Iran (2015-2016).
International journal of health policy and management
HIV prevalence and continuum of care among incarcerated people in Iran from 2010 to 2017.
Harm reduction journal
Prevalence, Incidence and Health Impacts of Sleep Disorders on Coronary Artery Disease Risk Factors: Results of a Community-Based Cohort Study (KERCADRS).
Iranian journal of psychiatry
Trends in malaria indicators after scale-up of community-based malaria management in Afghanistan.
Malaria journal
Statistical Inference of COVID-19 Outbreak: Delay Distribution Effect in EQIR Modeling of Epidemic.
Journal of medical signals and sensors
Epidemiology and spatial distribution of people diagnosed with HIV between 1997 and 2020 in Kerman, Iran.
Sexually transmitted infections
Estimating COVID-19-Related Infections, Deaths, and Hospitalizations in Iran Under Different Physical Distancing and Isolation Scenarios.
International journal of health policy and management
HIV Prevalence and Related Behaviors Among People Who Inject Drugs in Iran from 2010 to 2020.
AIDS and behavior
An on-site community-based model for hepatitis C screening, diagnosis, and treatment among people who inject drugs in Kerman, Iran: The Rostam study.
The International journal on drug policy
Gaps in the continuum of care among people living with HIV in Afghanistan.
International journal of STD & AIDS
Prevalence and Incidence Rate of Diabetes, Pre-diabetes, Uncontrolled Diabetes, and Their Predictors in the Adult Population in Southeastern Iran: Findings From KERCADR Study.
Frontiers in public health
Hepatitis C mortality trends in San Francisco: can we reach elimination targets?
Annals of epidemiology
Prevalence and 5-year incidence rate of dyslipidemia and its association with other coronary artery disease risk factors in Iran: Results of the Kerman coronary artery disease risk factors study (Phase 2).
Journal of research in medical sciences : the official journal of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences
Epidemiological update on prevalence and incidence of overweight and obesity in adults in the south-east of the Islamic Republic of Iran: findings from the Kerman Coronary Artery Diseases Risk Factors Study (KERCADRS).
Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit
Social Support Associated with Condom Use Behavior Among Female Sex Workers in Iran.
International journal of behavioral medicine
The global and regional prevalence of hepatitis C and B co-infections among prisoners living with HIV: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Infectious diseases of poverty
Trends in the prevalence and incidence of anxiety and depressive symptoms in Iran: findings from KERCADRS.
Family medicine and community health
Cascade of care in people living with HIV in Iran in 2019; how far to reach UNAIDS/WHO targets.
AIDS care
Prevalence and Correlates of Sexual Violence Experienced by Female Sex Workers in Iran: Results from a National HIV Bio-Behavioral Surveillance Survey.
Violence against women
Automated, multiparametric monitoring of respiratory biomarkers and vital signs in clinical and home settings for COVID-19 patients.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Proportion and reasons for loss to follow-up in a cohort study of people who inject drugs to measure HIV and HCV incidence in Kerman, Iran.
Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy
Lifetime and past-month substance use and injection among street-based female sex workers in Iran.
Harm reduction journal
HIV in Iran: onset, responses, and future directions.
AIDS (London, England)
Data Smoothing, Extrapolation, and Triangulation.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Estimating the Size of Hidden Groups.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Methods to Estimate the Average Social Network Size.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Modelling the COVID-19 pandemic in context: an international participatory approach.
BMJ global health
Unsafe Injection Is Associated with Higher HIV Testing after Bayesian Adjustment for Unmeasured Confounding.
Archives of Iranian medicine
Induced abortion and associated factors among female sex workers in Iran.
The European journal of contraception & reproductive health care : the official journal of the European Society of Contraception
Prevalence and incidence of pre-hypertension and hypertension (awareness/control) in Iran: findings from Kerman coronary artery diseases risk factors study 2 (KERCADRS).
Journal of human hypertension
Gender difference in all-cause mortality of people living with HIV in Iran: findings from a 20-year cohort study.
HIV medicine
COVID-19 and Social Distancing: A Pandemic of Advanced Diseases Is at Birth.
Archives of Iranian medicine
Barriers and motivators to participation and retention in HIV/HCV cohort studies among people who inject drugs: a community consultation in Iran.
Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy
HIV prevention cascades for injection and sexual risk behaviors among HIV-negative people who inject drug in Iran.
The International journal on drug policy
Opioid agonist therapy uptake among people who inject drugs: the findings of two consecutive bio-behavioral surveillance surveys in Iran.
Harm reduction journal
Estimation of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Burden and Potential for International Dissemination of Infection From Iran.
Annals of internal medicine
Epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Epidemiology and infection
Prevalence and correlates of initiating injection drug use before the age of 18 years in Iran: results of a national survey.
Journal of addictive diseases
Social and structural determinants of health associated with drug use patterns among female sex workers in Iran: A latent class analysis.
The International journal on drug policy
Early sex work initiation and its association with condomless sex and sexually transmitted infections among female sex workers in Iran.
International journal of STD & AIDS
HIV and risk behaviors among visitors of inmates at the Great Tehran Prison, Iran, 2018.
The open AIDS journal
Clinical display, diagnostics and genetic implication of novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic.
European review for medical and pharmacological sciences
The Prevalence and 5-Year Incidence Rate of Low Physical Activity in an Urban Population of 10,000 in Southeastern Iran: Relationship With Other Cardiovascular Risk Factors.
Journal of physical activity & health
Understanding the Reasons for Sharing Syringes or Needles to Inject Drugs: Conventional Content Analysis.
Addiction & health
Drug resistance patterns in HIV patients with virologic failure in Iran.
Archives of clinical infectious diseases
Declining trends in HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among female sex workers in Iran could be attributable to reduced drug injection: a cross-sectional study.
Sexually transmitted infections
Software Application Profile: The Anchored Multiplier calculator-a Bayesian tool to synthesize population size estimates.
International journal of epidemiology
HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Female Sex Workers in Iran: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Archives of sexual behavior
The HIV treatment cascade in people living with HIV in Iran in 2014: Mixed-method study to measure losses and reasons.
International journal of STD & AIDS
Population Size Estimates of Street Children in Iran: Synthesis of Multiple Methods.
Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
Dual Unsafe Injection and Sexual Behaviors for HIV Infection Among People Who Inject Drugs in Iran.
AIDS and behavior
Characterizing the relationship between incarceration and structural risks among female sex workers in Iran: findings of a nationwide biobehavioral surveillance survey.
Annals of epidemiology
Estimating the Population Size of Female Sex Workers in Namibia Using a Respondent-Driven Sampling Adjustment to the Reverse Tracking Method: A Novel Approach.
JMIR public health and surveillance
Treatment cascade for hepatitis C virus in young adult people who inject drugs in San Francisco: Low number treated.
Drug and alcohol dependence
Condom Use and its Associated Factors Among Iranian Youth: Results From a Population-Based Study.
International journal of health policy and management
A Bayesian approach to synthesize estimates of the size of hidden populations: the Anchored Multiplier.
International journal of epidemiology
Drug use patterns and associated factors among female sex workers in Iran.
Addictive behaviors
A review of methods to estimate the visibility factor for bias correction in network scale-up studies.
Epidemiology and health
Symptom-Based Versus Laboratory-Based Diagnosis of Five Sexually Transmitted Infections in Female Sex Workers in Iran.
AIDS and behavior
Syringe Sharing in Drug Injecting Dyads: A Cross-Classified Multilevel Analysis of Social Networks.
AIDS and behavior
Do School-Based Programs Prevent HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections in Adolescents? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research
Effectiveness of School-Based Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs in the USA: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research
Self-Reported and Network Scale-Up Estimates of Substance Use Prevalence among University Students in Kerman, Iran.
Journal of research in health sciences
Continued Transmission of HIV Among Young Adults Who Inject Drugs in San Francisco: Still Room for Improvement.
AIDS and behavior
ENHANCED BETA-CATENIN EXPRESSION IS ASSOCIATED WITH RECURRENCE OF PAPILLARY THYROID CARCINOMA.
Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists
Crystal methamphetamine use and its correlates in women engaged in sex work in a developing country setting.
Drug and alcohol dependence
Underreporting in HIV-related high-risk behaviors: comparing the results of multiple data collection methods in a behavioral survey of prisoners in Iran.
The Prison journal
The Effect of Female Sex on Hepatitis C Incidence Among People Who Inject Drugs: Results From the International Multicohort InC3 Collaborative.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Consistent Condom Use with Paying and Nonpaying Partners among Female Sex Workers in Iran: Findings of a National Biobehavioral Survey.
Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care
Population size estimation of female sex workers in Iran: Synthesis of methods and results.
PloS one
Remaining Gap in HIV Testing Uptake Among Female Sex Workers in Iran.
AIDS and behavior
Methamphetamine Use among Iranian Youth: A Population-based Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice study.
Substance use & misuse
Injection drug use among female sex workers in Iran: Findings from a nationwide bio-behavioural survey.
The International journal on drug policy
Comparing Characteristics of Early-Onset Injection Drug Users to Those With Late-Onset Injection in Kermanshah, Iran.
Substance use & misuse
Patterns of HIV Risks and Related Factors among People Who Inject Drugs in Kermanshah, Iran: A Latent Class Analysis.
Journal of psychoactive drugs
Higher incidence of HCV in females compared to males who inject drugs: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Journal of viral hepatitis
The effects of alcohol on spontaneous clearance of acute hepatitis C virus infection in females versus males.
Drug and alcohol dependence
Prevalence of dyslipidemia and its association with other coronary artery disease risk factors among urban population in Southeast of Iran: results of the Kerman coronary artery disease risk factors study (KERCADRS).
Journal of diabetes and metabolic disorders
Injecting and Sexual Networks and Sociodemographic Factors and Dual HIV Risk among People Who Inject Drugs: A Cross-sectional Study in Kermanshah Province, Iran.
Addiction & health
Using expert opinion to quantify unmeasured confounding bias parameters.
Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique
Low HIV testing rate and its correlates among men who inject drugs in Iran.
The International journal on drug policy
Interferon Lambda 4 Genotype Is Associated With Jaundice and Elevated Aminotransferase Levels During Acute Hepatitis C Virus Infection: Findings From the InC3 Collaborative.
Open Forum Infectious Diseases
Prevalence of anxiety and depression symptoms and their relationship with other coronary artery disease risk factors: A population-based study on 5900 residents in Southeast Iran.
Asian journal of psychiatry
Impact of HIV Status Notification on Risk Behaviors among Men Who Inject Drugs in Kermanshah, West of Iran.
Journal of research in health sciences
Overweight and obesity prevalence and its predictors in a general population: A community-based study in Kerman, Iran (Kerman coronary artery diseases risk factors studies).
ARYA atherosclerosis
Prevalence of Active and Passive Smoking among Adult Population: Findings of a Population-Based Survey in Kerman (KERCADRS), Iran.
Addiction & health
The effect of on-site and outreach-based needle and syringe programs in people who inject drugs in Kermanshah, Iran.
The International journal on drug policy
Care Seeking Patterns of STIs-Associated Symptoms in Iran: Findings of a Population-Based Survey.
International journal of health policy and management
Client-Level Coverage of Needle and Syringe Program and High-Risk Injection Behaviors: A Case Study of People Who Inject Drugs in Kermanshah, Iran.
Addiction & health
Effects of opium consumption on coronary artery disease risk factors and oral health: Results of Kerman Coronary Artery Disease Risk factors Study a population-based survey on 5900 subjects aged 15-75 years.
International journal of preventive medicine
Relative risk reduction is useful metric to standardize effect size for public heath interventions for translational research.
Journal of clinical epidemiology
Trends in use of health care and HIV prevention services for persons who inject drugs in San Francisco: results from National HIV Behavioral Surveillance 2005-2012.
Drug and alcohol dependence
Hypertension: diagnosis, control status and its predictors in general population aged between 15 and 75 years: a community-based study in southeastern Iran.
International journal of public health
Access to harm reduction programs among persons who inject drugs: findings from a respondent-driven sampling survey in Tehran, Iran.
The International journal on drug policy
Acceptability of Global Positioning System technology to survey injecting drug users' movements and social interactions: a pilot study from San Francisco, USA.
Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine
HIV and related risk behaviors among female sex workers in Iran: bias-adjusted estimates from the 2010 National Bio-Behavoral Survey.
AIDS and behavior
HIV prevalence and related risk behaviors in men who have sex with men, Yemen 2011.
AIDS and behavior
Outcome assessment of a triangular clinic as a harm reduction intervention in Rajaee-Shahr Prison, Iran.
Harm reduction journal
HIV trend among Iranian prisoners in 1990s and 2000s; analysis of aggregated data from HIV sentinel sero-surveys.
Harm reduction journal
HIV prevalence and related risk behaviours among female sex workers in Iran: results of the national biobehavioural survey, 2010.
Sexually transmitted infections
HIV prevalence and related risk behaviours among prisoners in Iran: results of the national biobehavioural survey, 2009.
Sexually transmitted infections
Early loss to follow-up and mortality of HIV-infected patients diagnosed after the era of antiretroviral treatment scale up: a call for re-invigorating the response in Iran.
International journal of STD & AIDS
Meta-analysis of Smoking Prevalence in Iran.
Addiction & health
Trends of Obesity in Iranian Adults from 1990s to late 2000s; a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
Middle East journal of digestive diseases
Bias analysis to improve monitoring an HIV epidemic and its response: approach and application to a survey of female sex workers in Iran.
Journal of epidemiology and community health
Incorporating the service multiplier method in respondent-driven sampling surveys to estimate the size of hidden and hard-to-reach populations: case studies from around the world.
Sexually transmitted diseases
Accuracy of HIV-related risk behaviors reported by female sex workers, Iran: a method to quantify measurement bias in marginalized populations.
AIDS and behavior
Is the rate of CD4 cell decline changing over time in antiretroviral-naïve patients?
AIDS patient care and STDs
HIV, HSV2 and Syphilis Prevalence in Female Sex Workers in Kerman, South-East Iran; Using Respondent-Driven Sampling.
Iranian journal of public health
Regional HIV knowledge hubs: a new approach by the health sector to transform knowledge into practice.
Health promotion international
Coronary Artery Disease Risk Factors in an Urban and Peri-urban Setting, Kerman, Southeastern Iran (KERCADR Study): Methodology and Preliminary Report.
Iranian journal of public health
Malaria Status in Economic Cooperation Countries; Achievement and Gaps toward United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
Iranian journal of public health
Research priorities in the field of HIV and AIDS in Iran.
Journal of research in medical sciences : the official journal of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences
Evaluation of Tuberculosis Situation in Economic Cooperation Countries in 2009; Achievement and Gaps toward Millennium Development Goals.
International journal of preventive medicine
Knowledge and practice of iranians toward colorectal cancer, and barriers to screening.
International journal of preventive medicine
Does the presence of the Helicobacter pylori in the dental plaque associate with its gastric infection? A meta-analysis and systematic review.
Dental research journal
Housewives' obesity determinant factors in iran; national survey - stepwise approach to surveillance.
Iranian journal of public health
The ability of pulp sensibility tests to evaluate the pulp status in primary teeth.
International journal of paediatric dentistry
Abrupt opium discontinuation has no significant triggering effect on acute myocardial infarction.
Journal of cardiovascular medicine (Hagerstown, Md.)
The prevalence of honorary and ghost authorships in Iranian bio-medical journals and its associated factors.
Iranian journal of public health
Sex differences in potential daily triggers of the onset of acute myocardial infarction: a case-crossover analysis among an Iranian population.
Journal of cardiovascular medicine (Hagerstown, Md.)
Social disparities in prevalence, treatment and control of hypertension in Iran: second National Surveillance of Risk Factors of Noncommunicable Diseases, 2006.
Journal of hypertension
A digital stereomicroscopic study of the furcation wall thickness of mesiobuccal roots of maxillary first and second molars.
Iranian endodontic journal
Opium addiction and severity of coronary artery disease: a case-control study.
Journal of research in medical sciences : the official journal of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences
Related factors to disparity of diabetes care in Iran.
Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research
Patients' preferences for receiving clinical information and participating in decision-making in Iran.
Journal of medical ethics
The patterns of antihypertensive drug prescription by cardiologists in Kerman province of Iran, 2006.
Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety