Journal article
Cohort profile: The International Collaboration of Incident HIV and Hepatitis C in Injecting Cohorts (InC3) Study
J Grebely, MD Morris, TM Rice, J Bruneau, AL Cox, AY Kim, BH McGovern, NH Shoukry, G Lauer, L Maher, AR Lloyd, M Hellard, M Prins, GJ Dore, K Page
International Journal of Epidemiology | OXFORD UNIV PRESS | Published : 2013
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dys167
Abstract
The International Collaboration of Incident HIV and Hepatitis C in Injecting Cohorts (InC3) Study is an international multi-cohort project of pooled biological and behavioural data from nine prospective cohorts of people who inject drugs (PWID). InC3 brings together researchers from Australia, Canada, USA and the Netherlands with expertise in epidemiology, biostatistics, clinical and behavioural sciences, virology and immunology to investigate research questions relevant to hepatitis C virus (HCV) and HIV outcomes. InC3 was established to: (i) create a merged multi-cohort study of pooled data from well-characterized cohorts of PWID with prospective data on HIV and HCV infections, with a part..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The InC<SUP>3</SUP> Study is supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (award number R01DA031056). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute on Drug Abuse or the National Institutes of Health. The Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity in Society is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily represent the position of the Australian Government. J.G. is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council Career Development Fellowship. J.B. and N.H.S. are supported by Fonds de la Recherche du Quebec-Sante Research Career Awards. G. D. and A. L. are supported by National Health and Medical Research Council Practitioner Research Fellowships. M. H. and L. M. were supported by National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Research Fellowships and M. H. additionally by a VicHealth Senior Research Fellowship. Other research support includes NIH U19 AI088791 (A. C.), NIH U19 AI066345 (A. K., G. L. and B. M.), U19 AI082630 (NIAID; A. K., G. L. and B. M.), R01 DA033541 (NIDA; A. K., G. L. and B. M.), and RO1 DA016017 (K. P.)