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Study on Risk Taking Behavior to HIV/AIDS Among Injecting Drug User’s in a Easter Region of Nepal

Journal of Nobel Medical College, 2015
Introduction: Drug abuse is the Universal Problem and Nepal is not the exception. Different study and report have reported high prevalence of HIV/AIDS among the IDUs in Nepal.
Bimala Bhatta, Sashi Dev Shah, Nabaraj Koirala   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Syringe exchange schemes [PDF]

BMJ, 1988
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Modified two-needle technique of air/fluid exchange for in-office treatment of unhealed macular hole

International Journal of Retina and Vitreous
Background Pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) combined with internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling and sterilized air tamponade is used to treat macular hole(MH).
Jun Chen, Shiya Mai, Yayun Wang, Yi Yu, Mo Tian, Xuhui Yu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Working with the Aids Alliance - syringe exchange programmes

Awo Ablo from the International HIV AIDS Alliance tells us more about the collaboration with the School.
LSHTM
core   +2 more sources

Association of safer smoking supply distribution with participant encounters and naloxone distribution from syringe services programs: Findings from the National Survey of Syringe Services Programs in the United States

Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports
Background: In response to the recent and growing shift from injecting heroin to smoking fentanyl, an increasing number of syringe services programs (SSPs) in the United States are distributing safer smoking supplies.
Esther O. Chung, Sheila V. Patel, Lynn D. Wenger, Jamie L. Humphrey, Amang Sukasih, Ricky N. Bluthenthal, Hansel E. Tookes, Don C. Des Jarlais, Sara N. Glick, Paul A. LaKosky, Stephanie Prohaska, Laura Guzman, Alex H. Kral, Barrot H. Lambdin   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Prison Economy of Needles and Syringes: What Opportunities Exist for Blood Borne Virus Risk Reduction When Prices Are so High?

PLoS ONE, 2016
AimA formal Needle and Syringe Program (NSP) is not provided in Australian prisons. Injecting equipment circulates in prisons as part of an informal and illegal economy. This paper examined how this economy generates blood-borne virus (BBV) risk and risk
Carla Treloar, Luke McCredie, Andrew R Lloyd   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Syringe-to-syringe-dispersive liquid–phase microextraction combined with flame atomic absorption spectrometry for pre-concentration and determination of cobalt with the aid of experimental design

, 2018
A rapid and selective technique has been proposed for the extraction, pre-concentration and determination of trace amounts of cobalt in water and pharmaceutical samples by syringe-to-syringe-dispersive liquid–phase microextraction (SS-DLPME) combined ...
Majid Ramezani (5477999), Ali Niazi (102877), Elnaz Koosha (5477996)   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Syringe access for the prevention of blood borne infections among injection drug users

BMC Public Health, 2003
Background Approximately one-third of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome cases in the United States are associated with the practice of sharing of injection equipment and are preventable through the once-only use of syringes, needles and other injection ...
Rich Josiah D, Agins Bruce, Stancliff Sharon, Burris Scott   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Financial barriers, facilitators, and strategies among syringe services programs in the U.S., and their impact on implementation and health outcomes

SSM: Qualitative Research in Health
Syringe Services Programs (SSPs) provide evidence-based services like drug use equipment to prevent infectious disease, overdose prevention education, and naloxone distribution to people who use drugs (PWUD).
Christopher F. Akiba, Jessica Smith, Lynn D. Wenger, Terry Morris, Sheila V. Patel, Ricky N. Bluthenthal, Hansel E. Tookes, Paul LaKosky, Alex H. Kral, Barrot H. Lambdin   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Feasibility of needle and syringe programs in Tajikistan distributing low dead space needles

Harm Reduction Journal, 2018
Background In 2012, the World Health Organization recommended that needle and syringe programs offer their clients low dead space insulin syringes with permanently attached needles.
William A. Zule, Alisher Latypov, David Otiashvili, Steffani Bangel, Georgiy V. Bobashev   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source