Selected Publications

Approximately half of all people on methadone (in Ukraine) are also being treated for HIV, and the discontinuation of methadone (as a result of Russia's full-scale invasion) could result in high rates of discontinuation from HIV medications, which could accelerate progression of HIV or, in the case of ongoing HIV risk-taking, transmit HIV to others.

Interventions that reduce incarceration itself and effectively intervene with people in prison to screen, diagnose, and treat addiction and HIV, hepatitis C virus, and tuberculosis are urgently needed to stem the multiple overlapping epidemics concentrated in prisons.

This study is the only examination of within-prison drug injection from a nationally representative survey of people in prison...in a region where HIV incidence and mortality are increasing. Within-prison drug injection levels were extraordinarily high in the presence of low uptake of prison-based methadone maintenance treatment.

Interview with me @1h16m

Russia is home to the world's most explosive HIV epidemic...Despite this, the government exacerbates the problem by creating a climate of fear, repression and stigmatization for drug users while simultaneously denying them access to effective treatment programs.

As material arrangements were reorganized so that queer collectivities could endure (during the COVID-19 lockdowns), queer people who found themselves standing on the margins of the dark room were suddenly moved to the centre of the home. As Bohdan, a trans man, pointed out, ‘I had more casual sex during the lockdown than ever before. I don’t know why. Maybe something about the abundance of soft surfaces for people with pussies to lie on. Or just fucking in socks. People love to fuck in socks.’

This critique propels a move from an individually oriented model to one that appreciates the production of health as a collective endeavor offering a crucial—and up until now disregarded—starting point from which to implement health reforms in prison settings. Interventions, medical or otherwise, that work to excise the individual from the collective are unlikely to succeed in self-governing prisons.