Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics - Underserved Populations (RADx-UP): Supported Employment to Create a Community Culture of Rapid Testing Among People Who Inject Drugs: PeerConnect2Test. Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics - Underserved Populations (RADx-UP): Supported Employment to Create a Community Culture of Rapid Testing Among People Who Inject Drugs: PeerConnect2Test

This Phase III project builds on the successes of our Phase I and Phase II projects but uses a novel approach to adapt to the changing pandemic context; facilitation of rapid testing by people who inject drugs (PWID) via a supported employment program that trains PWID as peer health workers (PHW). PWID are vulnerable to contracting severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and to the effects of the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) due to structural disadvantage, health vulnerabilities, and stigmatization that prevents adequate access to medical care. While our project has previously processed more than 6,000 self-collected polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests for PWID across the state of Oregon, the ever-changing nature of the... (for more see dbGaP study page.)