Appa Ayesha, Rowe Christopher, Hessol Nancy A, Coffin Phillip
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Division of HIV, ID, and Global Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, USA.
Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020 Nov 18;7(12):ofaa565. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa565. eCollection 2020 Dec.
Despite elevated mortality in people with HIV (PWH) using drugs, drug-related deaths are poorly characterized. Among 6764 drug-related deaths, methamphetamine was more common in PWH than others. One in 4 deaths in PWH involved acute infection. Combatting mortality in PWH who use drugs should include stimulant-specific and infection prevention efforts.
尽管使用毒品的艾滋病毒感染者(PWH)死亡率较高,但与毒品相关的死亡情况却鲜有描述。在6764例与毒品相关的死亡病例中,甲基苯丙胺在PWH中比在其他人中更为常见。PWH中有四分之一的死亡涉及急性感染。应对使用毒品的PWH的死亡率应包括针对兴奋剂的预防措施和感染预防措施。