The effectiveness of harm reduction in preventing HIV among injecting drug users
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The effectiveness of harm reduction in preventing HIV among injecting drug users.
There is now compelling evidence that harm reduction approaches to HIV prevention among injecting drug users are effective, safe and cost-effective. The evidence of effectiveness is strongest for needle and syringe programs and opioid substitution treatment. There is no convincing evidence that needle and syringe programs increase injecting drug use. The low prevalence approximately 1%) of HIV ...
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عنوان ژورنال: New South Wales Public Health Bulletin
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1034-7674
DOI: 10.1071/nb10007