Harm reduction for injecting drug users
The effectiveness of harm reduction in preventing HIV among injecting drug users
... that harm reduction approaches to HIV prevention among injecting drug users are effective, safe and ...increase injecting drug ...among injecting drug ...
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Effectiveness of harm reduction programmes for injecting drug users in Dhaka city
... the harm reduction programme for injecting drug users (IDU) of CARE, Bangladesh in Dhaka city and uses data from surveillance and a focussed research study on a cohort of IDU, to ...
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Drug Use and Harm Reduction Model: Responding to the Health Challenge of Injecting Drug Users in Bangladesh
... among injecting drug users and results indicated that the current volume of NSP working across Dhaka city is not sufficient to meet the demands of IDUs and furthermore, due to limited hour of access, ...
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Drug Use and Harm Reduction Model: Responding to the Health Challenge of Injecting Drug Users in Bangladesh
... among injecting drug users and results indicated that the current volume of NSP working across Dhaka city is not sufficient to meet the demands of IDUs and furthermore, due to limited hour of access, ...
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HIV/AIDS Prevention among Injecting Drug Users: Learning from Harm Reduction in Iran
... among injecting drug users was held in Tehran, April 17-20, 2006, organized by the Government of The Islamic Republic of Iran, the World Bank, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and ...
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Out of harm s way. Injecting drug users and harm reduction. IFRC Advocacy Report. December Saving lives, changing minds.
... – Injecting drug users and harm reduction An advocacy report / December 2010 Executive summary • Harm reduction refers to a range of pragmatic and evidence-based public ...
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Harm reduction among injecting drug users - evidence of effectiveness
... (OST), drug consumption rooms (DCRs), and peer naloxone distribution (PND) on HIV/hepatitis C (HCV) incidence/prevalence, injecting risk behaviour and overdose-related ...self-reported injecting risk ...
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Harm reduction approach in Egypt: the insight of injecting drug users
... sites. Harm reduction intervention model implemented in Egypt include the fol- lowing services which are offered anonymously and free of charge; peer education on safe sex and safe injection, HIV voluntary ...
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Harm reduction among injecting drug users - evidence of effectiveness
... (OST), drug consumption rooms (DCRs), and peer naloxone distribution (PND) on HIV/hepatitis C (HCV) incidence/prevalence, injecting risk behaviour and overdose-related ...self-reported injecting risk ...
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Hepatitis C and HIV incidence and harm reduction program use in a conflict setting: an observational cohort of injecting drug users in Kabul, Afghanistan
... to harm reduction in this context. Harm reduction and drug dependence treatment program- ming should increase emphasis on prevention pro- gramming for HCV and overdose and develop and ...
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Prevalence and correlates of HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B and C infection and harm reduction program use among male injecting drug users in Kabul, Afghanistan: A cross-sectional assessment
... Kabul, drug users perceive that injection drug use results in better services and greater opportunities for compensa- tion ...that drug users might inadvertently initiate ...
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Injecting drug use and unstable housing: Scope for structural interventions in harm reduction
... health harm among drug users, including riskier drug injecting ...with injecting drug users (IDUs) in Bristol and London in ...through drug user networks and ...
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Irish injecting drug users and hepatitis C: the importance of the social context of injecting.
... unsafe injecting poorly predict HCV ...unsafe injecting which they have ...of injecting equipment, particularly when IDU inject in the company of others [2, 30, ...IDU’s injecting career, ...
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Drug injecting and HIV risk among injecting drug users in Hai Phong, Vietnam: A qualitative analysis
... of injecting jointly purchased drugs in small groups in public places, followed by sharing episodes ...for injecting’ as an important situational factor facilitating sharing practices among IDUs in Hai ...
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Survey of abuses against injecting drug users in Indonesia
... Indonesia's drug user NGOs have in some ways become the cutting edge of the human rights movement ...Local harm reduction NGOs in many regions of the country have begun meeting with local police ...
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HIV and Injecting Drug Users in Vietnam: An Overview of Policies and Responses
... and injecting drug users in Vietnam: An overview of policies and responses Abstract The HIV epidemic in Vietnam is fuelled by injecting drug ...focused drug policy and response, ...
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Understanding the association between injecting and sexual risk behaviors of injecting drug users in Manipur and Nagaland, India
... Data for this study were obtained from a Behavioral Tracking Survey (BTS) conducted in 2009 among IDUs in Ukhrul and Chandel districts of Manipur, and Kiphire and Zunheboto districts of Nagaland. The BTS is a ...
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Profiles of risk: a qualitative study of injecting drug users in Tehran, Iran
... Second, drug use and injecting drug use in particular are illegal, thus individuals involved in the study belong to hidden populations, which inherently compromise the researcher's ability to ...
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The injecting ‘event’: harm reduction beyond the human
... control’ drug user, or worse, ‘junkie’. Whilst harm reduction has undoubtedly had vast successes, including challenging the otherwise pathologising and often stigmatising model of addiction, I argue ...
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HIV infection in injecting drug users
... What will be your choice of HAART for HIV male patient , previously injecting, now taking methadone and still on TB treatment. containing RIF+INH[r] ...
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