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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

Double counting of clients using services in Iran: implications for assessing the reach of harm reduction programs

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Background Many people with high-risk sexual or injection behaviors use harm reduction services with different identities and are therefore counted more than once in client databases.
Fatemeh Tavakoli, Willi Mcfarland, Nima Ghalekhani, Mehrdad Khezri, Ali Akbar Haghdoost, Mohammad Mehdi Gouya, Marzieh Mahboobi, Ali Mohammad Hosseionpour, Ali Komasi, Mehdi Ghorbanian, Nasim Nasiri Moghadam, Maryam Taghipour, Hamid Sharifi   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

How do contextual factors influence naloxone distribution from syringe service programs in the USA: a cross-sectional study

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Background Naloxone is a medication that can quickly reverse an opioid overdose. Syringe service programs (SSPs) are community-based prevention programs that provide a range of evidence-based interventions in the USA, including naloxone distribution ...
Barrot H. Lambdin, Lynn Wenger, Ricky Bluthenthal, Tyler S. Bartholomew, Hansel E. Tookes, Paul LaKosky, Savannah O’Neill, Alex H. Kral   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

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

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

Dynamic modelling of hepatitis C virus transmission among people who inject drugs: a methodological review [PDF]

, 2014
Equipment sharing among people who inject drugs (PWID) is a key risk factor in infection by hepatitis C virus (HCV). Both the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions aimed at reducing HCV transmission in this population (such as opioid ...
Cousien, Anthony, Deuffic-Burban, Sylvie, Dhersin, Jean-Stephane, Jauffret-Roustide, Marie, Tran, Viet Chi, Yazdanpanah, Yazdan   +5 more
core   +5 more sources

Expansion of Syringe Service Programs in the United States, 2015–2018

American Journal of Public Health, 2020
Objectives. To report on the expansion of syringe service programs (SSPs) in the United States from 2015 to 2018. Methods. We obtained data from records of the Buyers’ Club of the Dave Purchase Project/North American Syringe Exchange Network (NASEN), including the number of US SSPs and the numbers of sterile syringes purchased by programs.
Don C, Des Jarlais, Jonathan, Feelemyer, Paul, LaKosky, Kathryn, Szymanowski, Kamyar, Arasteh   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Assessing the role of syringe dispensing machines and mobile van outlets in reaching hard-to-reach and high-risk groups of injecting drug users (IDUs): a review

Harm Reduction Journal, 2007
Reaching hard-to-reach and high-risk injecting drug users (IDUs) is one of the most important challenges for contemporary needle syringe programs (NSPs).
Islam Md Mofizul, Conigrave Katherine M
doaj   +1 more source

A review of the evidence for the effectiveness of primary prevention interventions for Hepatitis C among injecting drug users [PDF]

, 2006
BACKGROUND Hepatitis C (HCV) prevalence is most common amongst injecting drug users where up to 98% of the population can be infected despite a low prevalence of HIV.
Tompkins, C.N.E., Wright, N.M.J.
core   +3 more sources