Background Injecting drug use is a major risk factor for the acquisition and transmission of
HIV and Hepatitis C virus (HCV). Prevention of these infections among people who inject …

This first international review of the evidence that needle syringe programs reduce HIV
infection among injecting drug users found that conservative interpretation of the published …

Aims To review the evidence on the effectiveness of harm reduction interventions involving
the provision of sterile injecting equipment in the prevention of hepatitis C virus (HCV) and …

Drug addiction is a major risk factor for HIV infection for an estimated 3.4±5.5 million
injecting drug users (IDU) in more than 125 countries [1±3]. In the USA, injecting drug use …

Background There have been no studies showing that participation in programmes which
provide legal access to drug-injection equipment leads to individual-level protection against …

The association between needle exchange, change in drug use frequency and enrollment
and retention in methadone drug treatment was studied in a cohort of Seattle injection drug …

Needle exchange programs (NEPs) are designed to prevent human immunodeficiency virus
(HIV) transmission among injection drug users. Although most studies report beneficial …

A penetrating analysis of the close relationship between public health and human rights, this
book makes a compelling case for synergy between the two fields. Using the AIDS …

Minimizing the epidemic spread of an infectious disease requires that we carefully examine
data on the effectiveness of all interventions believed to reduce transmission. For AIDS, the …

This is the first comprehensive international review of the evidence for needle syringe
programmes. The major, and now overwhelmingly strong, finding is that needle syringe …