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Improving coverage and scale-up of HIV prevention, treatment and care for injecting drug users: Moving the agenda forward
13 February 2008
The significance of reaching adequate numbers of injection drug users (IDUs) with effective interventions has been universally accepted and reiterated by researchers, national and international agenci...
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Mukta Sharma,
Dave Burrows,
Ricky N. Bluthenthal
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| Commentaries |
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Setting targets for universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care for injecting drug users (IDUs): Towards consensus and improved guidance
13 February 2008
Abstract: Scaling-up access to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care for injecting drug users (IDUs) has been frustrated by the lack of a framework, indicators and agreed targets for interventions s...
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Martin C. Donoghoe,
Annette Verster,
Cyril Pervilhac,
Paul Williams
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5-14
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Tracking coverage on the silk road: Time to turn theory into practice
13 February 2008
Abstract: Scaling up coverage of programs that effectively reduce the spread of HIV among vulnerable populations, including injecting drug users (IDUs), sex workers (SWs), and men who have sex with me...
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Robert Gray,
Leah Hoffman
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15-24
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| Research Papers |
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Access to syringes in three Russian cities: Implications for syringe distribution and coverage
04 March 2008
Abstract: Background: We report findings from a multi-method study investigating drug injectors’ access to needles and syringes in three large Russian cities (Moscow, Volgograd, Barnaul). Methods: We ...
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Anya Sarang,
Tim Rhodes,
Lucy Platt
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25-36
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HIV transmission in Bangladesh: An analysis of IDU programme coverage
21 January 2008
Abstract: Background: Sentinel Surveillance found HIV had increased to 7% among street-based injection drug users (IDUs) in Central Bangladesh in 2006–2007, indicating the urgent need to increase prev...
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Amala Reddy,
Md. Mozammel Hoque,
Robert Kelly
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37-46
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Correlates of syringe coverage for heroin injection in 35 large metropolitan areas in the US in which heroin is the dominant injected drug
27 February 2008
Abstract: Background: Scientific consensus holds that if, at the outset of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, injection drug users (IDUs) had had better access to sterile syringes, much of the epidemic among IDUs...
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Barbara Tempalski,
Hannah L. Cooper,
Samuel R. Friedman,
Don C. Des Jarlais,
Joanne Brady,
Karla Gostnell
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47-58
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Coverage to curb the emerging HIV epidemic among injecting drug users in Pakistan: Delivering prevention services where most needed
18 February 2008
Abstract: Background: HIV Surveillance data from IDUs is suggestive of an escalating epidemic in major cities of Pakistan. The relatively widespread presence and interlinking of IDU and high-risk sexu...
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Faran Emmanuel,
Mehreen Fatima
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59-64
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Community coverage and HIV prevention: Assessing metrics for estimating HIV incidence through syringe exchange
21 January 2008
Abstract: Background: Evaluations of syringe-exchange programme effectiveness that attempt to measure “coverage” by determining the percentage of the at-risk population reached by a programme are insu...
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Robert Heimer
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65-73
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Managing information: Using systematic data collection to estimate process and impact indicators related to harm reduction services in Myanmar
18 February 2008
Abstract: Background: Discussion about coverage has primarily focused on answering the question: what level of coverage is required to reduce the spread of HIV among people who inject drugs? This pape...
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Simon Baldwin,
Neil Boisen,
Robert Power
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74-79
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