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Exploring stakeholder perceptions of facilitators and barriers to using needle exchange programs in Yunnan Province, China. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Injection drug use is an ongoing urban health crisis in China and one of the largest drivers of the transmission of HIV/AIDS. Sentinel surveillance sites in Yunnan province show upwards of 20% of injection drug users (IDUs) are HIV positive.
Morgan M Philbin, Zhang FuJie
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Qualitative case study of needle exchange programs in the Central Appalachian region of the United States. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
BACKGROUND:The Central Appalachian region of the United States is in the midst of a hepatitis C virus epidemic driven by injection of opioids, particularly heroin, with contaminated syringes. In response to this epidemic, several needle exchange programs
Stephen M Davis, Danielle Davidov, Alfgeir L Kristjansson, Keith Zullig, Adam Baus, Melanie Fisher   +5 more
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Needle exchange programs for the prevention of hepatitis C virus infection in people who inject drugs: a systematic review with meta-analysis [PDF]

Harm Reduction Journal, 2017
Background Previous research on the effectiveness of needle exchange programs (NEP) in preventing hepatitis C virus (HCV) in people who inject drugs (PWID) has shown mixed findings.
Stephen M. Davis, Shay Daily, Alfgeir L. Kristjansson, George A. Kelley, Keith Zullig, Adam Baus, Danielle Davidov, Melanie Fisher   +7 more
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Exploring disparities: a regional analysis of harm reduction supply distribution and opioid-related deaths across Ontario’s Public Health Units [PDF]

Harm Reduction Journal
Background It is critical that a range of harm reduction supplies are available through Ontario’s Public Health Units (PHU) to meet the varying needs of people who use drugs.
Shaleesa Ledlie, Kristy Scarfone, Dana Shearer, Nadia Zurba, Miroslav Miskovic, Charlotte Munro, Jes Besharah, Shauna Pinkerton, Tyler Watts, Tara Gomes   +9 more
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Optimal provision of opiate substitution therapy and needle and syringe programmes: a multi-method realist evaluation

Health Technology Assessment
Background The barriers and facilitators to engagement with Opiate Substitute Treatment and Needle and Syringe Provision need to be better understood to develop interventions to attract people into services.
Peter McCulloch, April Shaw, Gail Gilchrist, Catriona Matheson, Margaret Maxwell, Joanne Neale, Gareth Myring, Hugh McLeod, Matt Hickman, Peter Vickerman, Alison Munro, Steve MacGillivray   +11 more
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Prison needle exchange programs rare despite evidence. [PDF]

CMAJ, 2013
Clean needle distribution in prisons is “poor and patchy” around the world, despite evidence that it reduces the spread of infectious diseases and does not increase drug use, an international expert told a panel discussion in Toronto, Ontario.
Glauser W.
europepmc   +3 more sources

Tribally-affiliated syringe services programs in the United States: a brief report [PDF]

Harm Reduction Journal
Background Few studies have examined the implementation of syringe services programs (SSPs) that serve Indigenous people who inject drugs in the United States (US).
Sean T. Allen, Edmund Keane, Clinton Alexander, Sharon Day, Philomena Kebec, Andrea Medley, Frank Johnson, Pam Hughes, Brooklynn Barney, Melissa Walls   +9 more
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History of injection drug use in the month preceding incarceration in Iranian prisons [PDF]

Scientific Reports
This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and pattern of injecting drug use (IDU) in Iranian incarcerated people one month before their imprisonment.
Mitra Darbandi, Willi McFarland, Soheil Mehmandoost, Fatemeh Tavakoli, Maliheh Sadat Bazrafshan, Naser Nasiri, Ali Akbar Haghdoost, Meraj Sharifi, Roya Safari Faramani, Hamid Sharifi   +9 more
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Providing reproductive health services for women who inject drugs: a pilot program

Harm Reduction Journal, 2020
Background Needle syringe programs (NSPs), a proven harm reduction strategy for people who inject drugs, frequently offer limited healthcare services for their clients.
Lauren Owens, Kelly Gilmore, Mishka Terplan, Sarah Prager, Elizabeth Micks   +4 more
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people who inject drugs accessing harm reduction services in an rural American state

Harm Reduction Journal, 2022
Background The impact of public health policies during the COVID-19 pandemic on people who inject drugs (PWID) has varied across regions. In other countries, recent research has shown that PWID access to harm reduction services, despite rapid adaptations,
Kinna Thakarar, Michael Kohut, Rebecca Hutchinson, Rebecca Bell, Hannah E. Loeb, Debra Burris, Kathleen M. Fairfield   +6 more
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