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Hagan H, Jenness SM, Wendel T, Murrill CR, Neaigus A, Gelpi-Acosta C. Herpes simplex virus type 2 associated with HIV infection among New York heterosexuals living in high-risk areas. Int J STD AIDS. 2010 Aug;21(8):580-3. doi: 10.1258/ijsa.2010.010137. PubMed PMID: 20975092; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4811659.
Jenness SM, Neaigus A, Hagan H, Wendel T, Gelpi-Acosta C, Murrill CS. Reconsidering the internet as an HIV/STD risk for men who have sex with men. AIDS Behav. 2010 Dec;14(6):1353-61. doi: 10.1007/s10461-010-9769-x. PubMed PMID: 20665100.
Jenness SM, Neaigus A, Murrill CS, Gelpi-Acosta C, Wendel T, Hagan H. Recruitment-adjusted estimates of HIV prevalence and risk among men who have sex with men: effects of weighting venue-based sampling data. Public Health Rep. 2011 Sep-Oct;126(5):635-42. doi: 10.1177/003335491112600505. PubMed PMID: 21886323; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3151180.
Gelpí-Acosta C, Hagan H, Jenness SM, Wendel T, Neaigus A. Sexual and injection-related risks in Puerto Rican-born injection drug users living in New York City: A mixed-methods analysis. Harm Reduct J. 2011 Oct 17;8:28. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-8-28. PubMed PMID: 22004801; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3230122.
Neaigus A, Jenness SM, Hagan H, Murrill CS, Torian LV, Wendel T, Gelpi-Acosta C. Estimating HIV incidence and the correlates of recent infection in venue-sampled men who have sex with men in New York City. AIDS Behav. 2012 Apr;16(3):516-24. doi: 10.1007/s10461-011-0050-8. PubMed PMID: 21983693.
Beletsky L, Heller D, Jenness SM, Neaigus A, Gelpi-Acosta C, Hagan H. Syringe access, syringe sharing, and police encounters among people who inject drugs in New York City: a community-level perspective. Int J Drug Policy. 2014 Jan;25(1):105-11. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2013.06.005. Epub 2013 Aug 2. PubMed PMID: 23916801; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3842392.
Reilly KH, Neaigus A, Jenness SM, Hagan H, Wendel T, Gelpí-Acosta C. High HIV prevalence among low-income, Black women in New York City with self-reported HIV negative and unknown status. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2013 Sep;22(9):745-54. doi: 10.1089/jwh.2013.4341. Epub 2013 Aug 9. PubMed PMID: 23931126; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3768226.
Neaigus A, Reilly KH, Jenness SM, Hagan H, Wendel T, Gelpi-Acosta C. Dual HIV risk: receptive syringe sharing and unprotected sex among HIV-negative injection drug users in New York City. AIDS Behav. 2013 Sep;17(7):2501-9. doi: 10.1007/s10461-013-0496-y. PubMed PMID: 23640654.
Perlman DC, Gelpí-Acosta C, Friedman SR, Jordan AE, Hagan H. Perceptions of genetic testing and genomic medicine among drug users. Int J Drug Policy. 2015 Jan;26(1):100-6. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2014.06.013. Epub 2014 Jun 24. PubMed PMID: 25037119; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4276555.
Deren S, Gelpí-Acosta C, Albizu-García CE, González Á, Des Jarlais DC, Santiago-Negrón S. Addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic among Puerto Rican people who inject drugs: the need for a multiregion approach. Am J Public Health. 2014 Nov;104(11):2030-6. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302114. Epub 2014 Sep 11. PubMed PMID: 25211722; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4192034.
Jenness SM, Neaigus A, Wendel T, Gelpi-Acosta C, Hagan H. Spatial recruitment bias in respondent-driven sampling: Implications for HIV prevalence estimation in urban heterosexuals. AIDS Behav. 2014 Dec;18(12):2366-73. doi: 10.1007/s10461-013-0640-8. PubMed PMID: 24122043; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8284852.
Gelpi-Acosta C. Junkie habitus: Beyond disease and moral defect. College of Problems with Drug Dependence. 2015 January; San Juan, PR, US.
Deren S, Gelpi-Acosta C, Albizu C, Gonzalez A, Des Jarlais D, Santiago-Negron S. HIV among Puerto Rican people who inject drugs: Health disparities continue. College of Problems with Drug Dependence. 2015 January; San Juan, PR, US.
Deren S, Gelpí-Acosta C, Albizu-García CE, González A, Des Jarlais DC, Santiago-Negrón S. Deren et al. Respond. Am J Public Health. 2015 Jan;105(1):e3-e4. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302409. PubMed PMID: 25393198; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4265909.
Gelpi-Acosta C. Challenging biopower: “Liquid cuffs” and the “Junkie” habitus. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy. 2015 May; 22(3):248-54. doi: 10.3109/09687637.
Linton SL, Cooper HL, Kelley ME, Karnes CC, Ross Z, Wolfe ME, Des Jarlais D, Semaan S, Tempalski B, DiNenno E, Finlayson T, Sionean C, Wejnert C, Paz-Bailey G, National HIV Behavioral Surveillance Study Group. HIV Infection Among People Who Inject Drugs in the United States: Geographically Explained Variance Across Racial and Ethnic Groups. Am J Public Health. 2015 Dec;105(12):2457-65. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302861. Epub 2015 Oct 15. PubMed PMID: 26469638; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4638266.
Harris S, Nikulina V, Gelpí-Acosta C, Morton C, Newsome V, Gunn A, Hoefinger H, Aikins R, Smith V, Barry V, Downing MJ Jr. Prescription Drug Diversion: Predictors of Illicit Acquisition and Redistribution in Three U.S. Metropolitan Areas. AIMS Public Health. 2015 Dec 2;2(4):762-783. doi: 10.3934/publichealth.2015.4.762. PubMed PMID: 26690813; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4683601.
Abadie R, Welch-Lazoritz M, Gelpi-Acosta C, Reyes JC, Dombrowski K. Understanding differences in HIV/HCV prevalence according to differentiated risk behaviors in a sample of PWID in rural Puerto Rico. Harm Reduct J. 2016 Mar 8;13:10. doi: 10.1186/s12954-016-0099-9. PubMed PMID: 26956029; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4784433.
Neaigus A, Jenness SM, Reilly KH, Youm Y, Hagan H, Wendel T, Gelpi-Acosta C. Community Sexual Bridging Among Heterosexuals at High-Risk of HIV in New York City. AIDS Behav. 2016 Apr;20(4):722-36. doi: 10.1007/s10461-015-1244-2. PubMed PMID: 26558628; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4985266.
Gelpí-Acosta C, Pouget ER, Reilly KH, Hagan H, Neaigus A, Wendel T, Marshall DM 4th. Time Since Migration and HIV Risk Behaviors Among Puerto Ricans Who Inject Drugs in New York City. Subst Use Misuse. 2016 Jun 6;51(7):870-81. doi: 10.3109/10826084.2016.1155616. Epub 2016 Apr 21. PubMed PMID: 27100322; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4862909.
Abadie R, Gelpi-Acosta C, Davila C, Rivera A, Welch-Lazoritz M, Dombrowski K. "It Ruined My Life": The effects of the War on Drugs on people who inject drugs (PWID) in rural Puerto Rico. Int J Drug Policy. 2018 Jan;51:121-127. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.06.011. Epub 2017 Jul 14. PubMed PMID: 28716395; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5851589.
Gelpi-Acosta C. Identify Injection Risks Enculturation to Promote Health Among Migrant Puerto Rican People Who Inject Drugs in New York City. American Public Health Association. 2018 November; San Diego, CA, USA.
Gelpí-Acosta C, Guarino H, Benoit E, Deren S, Pouget ER, Rodríguez A. Injection risk norms and practices among migrant Puerto Rican people who inject drugs in New York City: The limits of acculturation theory. Int J Drug Policy. 2019 Jul;69:60-69. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.03.016. Epub 2019 Jun 10. PubMed PMID: 31196730; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6588447.
Abadie R, Habecker P, Gelpi-Acosta C, Dombrowski K. Migration to the US among rural Puerto Ricans who inject drugs: influential factors, sources of support, and challenges for harm reduction interventions. BMC Public Health. 2019 Dec 19;19(1):1710. doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-8032-2. PubMed PMID: 31856774; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6923839.
Gelpí-Acosta C, Rodríguez-Díaz CE, Aponte-Meléndez Y, Abadie R. Puerto Rican Syndemics: Opiates, Overdoses, HIV, and the Hepatitis C Virus in a Context of Ongoing Crises. Am J Public Health. 2020 Feb;110(2):176-177. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305487. PubMed PMID: 31913678; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6951383.
Abadie R, Gelpi-Acosta C, Aquino-Ruiz F, Aponte-Melendez Y. COVID-19 risks among people who inject drugs in Puerto Rico. Int J Drug Policy. 2021 Jul;93:102903. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102903. Epub 2020 Aug 15. PubMed PMID: 33069554; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7428716.
Gelpi-Acosta C. Dispatches from Rebellious Colonial Subjects. NACLA Report on the Americas. 2020 August; 52(3):252-259.
Gelpi-Acosta C. Toward Community Empowerment: The Puerto Rican Ganchero. Contemporary Drug Problems. 2020 October.
Gelpí-Acosta C, Guarino H, Benoit E, Deren S, Rodríguez A. Toward Community Empowerment: The Puerto Rican Ganchero. Contemp Drug Probl. 2021 Mar;48(1):38-57. doi: 10.1177/0091450920964576. Epub 2020 Oct 7. PubMed PMID: 36061616; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9435813.
Cano M, Gelpí-Acosta C. Drug overdose mortality among stateside Puerto Ricans: Evidence of a health disparity. Int J Drug Policy. 2021 Apr;90:103079. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.103079. Epub 2020 Dec 18. PubMed PMID: 33341699.
Cano M, Gelpí-Acosta C. Risk of Drug Overdose Mortality for Island-Born and US-Born Puerto Ricans, 2013-2019. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2022 Aug;9(4):1403-1414. doi: 10.1007/s40615-021-01077-6. Epub 2021 Jun 3. PubMed PMID: 34081305.
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