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Cost-benefit analysis of Canada's Prison Needle Exchange Program for the prevention of hepatitis C and injection-related infections. [PDF]

CMAJ
Background: Needle exchange programs are effective public health interventions that reduce blood-borne infections, including hepatitis C, and injection-related infections.
Houdroge F, Kronfli N, Stoové M, Scott N.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Predictors of needle exchange program utilization during its implementation and expansion in Tijuana, Mexico. [PDF]

Am J Addict, 2016
Objective Until the early 2000s, there was only one needle exchange program (NEP) offered in Mexico. In 2004, the second Mexican NEP opened in Tijuana, but its utilization has not been studied.
Smith DM, Werb D, Abramovitz D, Magis-Rodriguez C, Vera A, Patterson TL, Strathdee SA, for Proyecto El Cuete.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

The Significance of Harm Reduction as a Social and Health Care Intervention for Injecting Drug Users: An Exploratory Study of a Needle Exchange Program in Fresno, California. [PDF]

Soc Work Public Health, 2016
Infectious disease remains a significant social and health concern in the United States. Preventing more people from contracting HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis C (HCV), requires a complex understanding of the interconnection between the biomedical and social ...
Clarke K, Harris D, Zweifler JA, Lasher M, Mortimer RB, Hughes S.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Injecting Drug Users Retention in Needle-Exchange Program and its Determinants in Iran Prisons. [PDF]

Int J High Risk Behav Addict, 2015
Background: Participation and to stay in a health program depends on many factors. One of these programs is Needle Exchange Program (NEP) in prisons. Objectives: The current study aimed to evaluate the retention of injecting drug prisoners and find the ...
Shahbazi M, Farnia M, Moradi G, Karamati M, Paknazar F, Mirmohammad Khani M.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Long-term survey of a syringe-dispensing machine needle exchange program: answering public concerns. [PDF]

Harm Reduct J, 2014
BackgroundSyringe-dispensing machines (SDM) provide syringes at any time even to hard-to-reach injecting drug users (IDUs). They represent an important harm reduction strategy in large populated urban areas such as Paris.
Duplessy C, Reynaud EG.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Mortality and causes of death among people who inject amphetamine: A long-term follow-up cohort study from a needle exchange program in Sweden

Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2018
BACKGROUND Abuse of amphetamines is a worldwide problem with around 34 million users, and amphetamine is commonly used by people who inject drugs (PWID).
Per Björkman
exaly   +2 more sources

Morality boundary work in the making of the needle and syringe exchange program in Stockholm

Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy
Background Drug policy is prone to build on rationales based on different moralities rather than evidence. Less is known about how moralities influence drug policy implementation in practice.
Eva Samuelsson, Jessica Storbjörk, Lena Eriksson   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

“[I]t will be like a full course meal”: healthcare worker perspectives on strategies to optimize integration of PrEP into medication for opioid use disorder and needle and syringe exchange programs for people who use drugs in Kampala, Uganda [PDF]

Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
Background Integrating pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) into facility-based medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) and community-based needle and syringe exchange (NSP) programs may optimize service provision and reduce HIV acquisition among people who
Nok Chhun, Brenda Kamusiime, Alisaati Nalumansi, Chris Collins Twesige, Grace Kakoola Nalukwago, Vicent Kasiita, Peter Mudiope, Ritah Kansiime, Timothy R. Muwonge, Peter Kyambadde, Herbert Kadama, Sara Glick, Barrot Lambdin, Renee Heffron, Andrew Mujugira, Kristin Beima-Sofie   +15 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Willingness to use a mobile syringe service program among people who inject drugs in rural Appalachia [PDF]

Harm Reduction Journal
Background Rural people who use drugs face a litany of structural and psychosocial barriers to SSP utilization (e.g., unreliable transportation, stigma).
Alex Elswick, Amanda Fallin-Bennett, Tasfia Jahangir, Susan Westneat, April M. Young   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Evaluating the effectiveness of a needle exchange program in Chicago.

, 2005
Evaluating the effectiveness of a needle exchange program in ...
Dezheng. Huo (7986821)
core   +6 more sources