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Shifting the paradigm: physician-authorized, student-led efforts to provide harm reduction services amidst legislative opposition

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2021
Background For over 30 years, syringe services programs (SSPs) have served as an efficacious intervention for the prevention of HIV and Hepatitis C transmission among persons who use drugs.
Timothy P. McMullen, Mahan Naeim, Carol Newark, Haden Oliphant, Jeffrey Suchard, Faried Banimahd   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Corrigendum: The Impact of Syringe Services Program Policy on Risk Behaviors Among Persons Who Inject Drugs in 3 US Cities, 2005-2015. [PDF]

Public Health Rep, 2022
europepmc   +2 more sources

Assessment of effectiveness of targeted intervention program under national AIDS control program among injecting drug users across India

Indian Journal of Public Health, 2023
Background: High HIV prevalence among injecting drug users (IDUs) remains a cause of concern and are considered key drivers of concentrated epidemic in India. The present paper aims to assess the effectiveness of the targeted intervention (TI) program on
Damodar Sahu, Varsha Ranjan, Nishakar Thakur, Sanjay K Rai, M Vishnu Vardhana Rao   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Implementation of a medical student-run telemedicine program for medications for opioid use disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic

Harm Reduction Journal, 2020
Objectives The COVID-19 pandemic led to the closure of the IDEA syringe services program medical student-run free clinic in Miami, Florida. In an effort to continue to serve the community of people who inject drugs and practice compassionate and non ...
Marcus Castillo, Brianna Conte, Sam Hinkes, Megan Mathew, C. J. Na, Ainhoa Norindr, David P. Serota, David W. Forrest, Amar R. Deshpande, Tyler S. Bartholomew, Hansel E. Tookes   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reduction of Injection-Related Risk Behaviors After Emergency Implementation of a Syringe Services Program During an HIV Outbreak [PDF]

, 2018
Objective: To describe injection-related HIV risk behaviors preimplementation and postimplementation of an emergency syringe services program (SSP) in Scott County, Indiana, after an HIV outbreak among persons who inject drugs (PWID).
Brooks, John T., Broz, Dita, Chapman, Erika, Combs, Brittany, Duwve, Joan, Foote, Carrie, Fry, Alexandra, Hall, Patti, Patel, Monita R., Roseberry, Jeremy   +9 more
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“We want everything in a one-stop shop”: acceptability and feasibility of PrEP and buprenorphine implementation with mobile syringe services for Black people who inject drugs

Harm Reduction Journal, 2022
Introduction A recent surge in HIV outbreaks, driven by the opioid and stimulant use crises, has destabilized our progress toward targets set forth by Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America for the high-priority community of people who inject drugs (
Tyler S. Bartholomew, Barbara Andraka-Cristou, Rachel K. Totaram, Shana Harris, Susanne Doblecki-Lewis, Lily Ostrer, David P. Serota, David W. Forrest, Teresa A. Chueng, Edward Suarez, Hansel E. Tookes   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

The syringe gap: an assessment of sterile syringe need and acquisition among syringe exchange program participants in New York City

Harm Reduction Journal, 2009
Background Programmatic data from New York City syringe exchange programs suggest that many clients visit the programs infrequently and take few syringes per transaction, while separate survey data from individuals using these programs indicate that ...
Siegler Anne, Paone Denise, Heller Daliah I, Karpati Adam   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution Within Syringe Service Programs — United States, 2019 [PDF]

MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2020
Syringe service programs (SSPs), which provide access to sterile syringes and other injection equipment and their safe disposal after use,* represent a highly successful human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention intervention. SSPs are associated with a 58% reduction in the incidence of HIV infection among persons who inject drugs (1).
Lambdin, Barrot H., Bluthenthal, Ricky N., Wenger, Lynn D., Wheeler, Eliza, Garner, Bryan, Lakosky, Paul, Kral, Alex H.   +6 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Harm reduction among injecting drug users - evidence of effectiveness [PDF]

, 2010
This chapter synthesises and evaluates the available direct evidence relating to the impact of needle and syringe programmes (NSPs), opioid substitution treatment (OST), drug consumption rooms (DCRs), and peer naloxone distribution (PND) on HIV/hepatitis
Goldberg, David, Hickman, Matthew, Hutchinson, Sharon, Kimber, Jo, Palmateer, Norah, Rhodes, Tim   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Early disruptions to syringe services programs during the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionThe widespread HIV epidemic in Ukraine is concentrated among people who inject drugs (PWID), making access to sterile injection paraphernalia (SIP) like sterile needles and syringes a critical method of HIV/AIDS prevention; however, the Russian invasion has threatened to disrupt the operations of syringe services programs (SSPs), creating a
Benjamin M. Nikitin, Daniel J. Bromberg, Iryna Pykalo, Roman Ivasiy, Zahedul Islam, Frederick L. Altice   +5 more
openaire   +3 more sources