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 +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 +7 more
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Needle exchange programs. Delivery and access issues. [PDF]
Can J Public Health, 2002 Examine the challenges of four service delivery models (i.e., fixed, mobile, satellite and home visits) and how service delivery may impact on NEP HIV prevention efforts.Using a modified ethnographic approach, semi-structured interviews concerning policies and procedures were conducted with staff (n = 59) of NEPs (n = 15) in Ontario.
Strike CJ +3 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 JournalBackground 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 +9 more
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Health Technology AssessmentBackground 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 +11 more
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Structural violence, decolonization and harm reduction in prisons: a critical perspective on opioid use disorders, gender and race [PDF]
Frontiers in SociologySubstance use remains highly prevalent among prison populations. The war on drugs represents an ethical failure that has not achieved its intended goals.
Iván Antonio García-Montalvo +7 more
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Evaluation of Needle Exchange Programs
Public Health Nursing, 2004 Abstract Needle exchange programs exist in every major population area in the United States and in many other countries. Some operate legally under emergency health decrees issued by local departments of health, with the stated intention of risk reduction through the removal of used injection equipment from use by injection drug users. It is theorized
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Willingness to use a mobile syringe service program among people who inject drugs in rural Appalachia [PDF]
Harm Reduction JournalBackground Rural people who use drugs face a litany of structural and psychosocial barriers to SSP utilization (e.g., unreliable transportation, stigma).
Alex Elswick +4 more
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Tribally-affiliated syringe services programs in the United States: a brief report [PDF]
Harm Reduction JournalBackground 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 +9 more
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