Background Injecting drug use is a major risk factor for the acquisition and transmission of
HIV and Hepatitis C virus (HCV). Prevention of these infections among people who inject …

Harm reduction is both a policy approach and used to describe a specific set of
interventions. These interventions aim to reduce the harms associated with drug use …

The Second Edition of Practical Program Evaluation shows readers how to systematically
identify stakeholders' needs in order to select the evaluation options best suited to meet …

This report updates and combines earlier versions of guidelines for the prevention and
treatment of opportunistic infections (OIs) in HIV-infected adults (ie, persons aged> 18 years) …

This first international review of the evidence that needle syringe programs reduce HIV
infection among injecting drug users found that conservative interpretation of the published …

Aims To review the evidence on the effectiveness of harm reduction interventions involving
the provision of sterile injecting equipment in the prevention of hepatitis C virus (HCV) and …

Objectives: The explosive and ongoing injecting drug use-related HIV-1 epidemic in
Vancouver continues to receive international attention. This study was conducted to …

Drug addiction is a major risk factor for HIV infection for an estimated 3.4±5.5 million
injecting drug users (IDU) in more than 125 countries [1±3]. In the USA, injecting drug use …

OBJECTIVES: We tested whether higher levels of social capital on college campuses
protected against individual risks of binge drinking. METHODS: We used a nationally …

Objective: To determine whether syringe exchange program use is associated with
cessation of syringe sharing among high-risk injection drug users. Design and methods …