Evidence for the effectiveness of sterile injecting equipment provision in preventing hepatitis C and human immunodeficiency virus transmission among injecting drug …

N Palmateer, J Kimber, M Hickman, S Hutchinson… - …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Sustaining safe practice: twenty years on

S Kippax, K Race - Social science & medicine, 2003 - Elsevier
This paper examines the ways in which populations at risk of HIV in the developed world
have enculturated the knowledges and technologies of both the medical and the social …

The 'risk environment': a framework for understanding and reducing drug-related harm

T Rhodes - International journal of drug policy, 2002 - Elsevier
Public discourses on health increasingly emphasise the environment. While harm reduction
has developed in parallel with the new public health movement, and both seek to encourage …

Increase in condom use and decline in HIV and sexually transmitted diseases among female sex workers in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, 1991–1998

PD Ghys, MO Diallo, V Ettiègne-Traoré, K Kalé, O Tawil… - Aids, 2002 - journals.lww.com
Objective To assess clinic-and community-based trends in demographic and behavioral
characteristics and clinic-based trends in HIV infection and other sexually transmitted …

HIV infection associated with drug injecting in the newly independent states, eastern Europe: the social and economic context of epidemics

T Rhodes, A Ball, GV Stimson, Kobyshcha, C Fitch… - …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Aims. We review recent trends in HIV associated with injecting drug use (IDU) in the Newly
Independent States (NIS) in eastern Europe, including Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine …

A meta-analysis of the effect of HIV prevention interventions on the sex behaviors of drug users in the United States

S Semaan, DC Des Jarlais, E Sogolow… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2002 - journals.lww.com
We examined the effectiveness of 33 US-based HIV intervention studies in reducing the
sexual risk behaviors of drug users by reducing unprotected sex or increasing the use of …

Reductions in hepatitis C virus and HIV infections among injecting drug users in New York City, 1990–2001

DC Des Jarlais, T Perlis, K Arasteh, LV Torian… - Aids, 2005 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To assess trends in HIV, hepatitis C virus (HCV) and HIV/HCV infection among
injecting drug users (IDU) from 1990 to 2001 in New York City. The 1990–2001 time period …

Transitions to injecting drug use among noninjecting heroin users: social network influence and individual susceptibility

A Neaigus, VA Gyarmathy, M Miller… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2006 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: To determine the incidence/predictors of transitions to injecting among
noninjecting heroin users (NIUs). Methods: Street-recruited NIUs in New York City …

Factors associated with prevalent hepatitis C: differences among young adult injection drug users in lower and upper Manhattan, New York City.

T Diaz, DC Des Jarlais, D Vlahov, TE Perlis… - American journal of …, 2001 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
OBJECTIVES: This study examined correlates of prevalent hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection
among young adult injection drug users in 2 neighborhoods in New York City. METHODS …

[图书][B] An analytic assessment of US drug policy

D Boyum, P Reuter - 2005 - aei.org
The war on drugs continues, although it no longer makes headlines. Government spending
on drug control in the United States totals $35 billion per year, and almost half a million …