Drug use and harm reduction in Afghanistan

Change in attitudes and knowledge of problem drug use and harm reduction among a community cohort in Kabul, Afghanistan.

This pre-post evaluation aimed to measure changes in knowledge and attitudes towards drug users among community representatives in Kabul, Afghanistan, over a period of expansion of harm reduction and drug dependence programming. A convenience sample of 160 professionals aged 18+ years completed interview questionnaires in 2007 and 2009. Views endorsing programme quality and the provision of con...

The Relationship between Risky Behavior and Hiv and Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Afghanistan

This study aims to investigate the relationship the high risk injecting behaviour and high rate of HCV infection . Since , most rate of HIV infections are related to injecting drug use . Afghanistan includes about 74% of the world’s opium production in world . There are some influential factors to increase some infection diseases such as poor socioeconomic conditions , high opium production, in...

Correction: Drug use and harm reduction in Afghanistan

Last, the current locations for counseling and prevention activities are Kabul, Herat, Faizabad, Gardez, and Kandahar with Nejat Center (Kabul) and GTZ working as separate entities. GTZ is working with NGO partners KOR in Kabul and Faizabad, with Wadan in Gardez and Kandahar, and with SHRO in Herat. We apologize for any misrepresentation and thank Dr. Bayan Shairshah for bringing this to our at...

Current research on methamphetamine: Epidemiology, medical and ‎psychiatric effects, treatment, and harm reduction efforts

Background: Methamphetamine (MA) which is known as “shisheh” in Iran is a drug that widely is used in many parts of the world and it is near to a decade that is available for the most drug users and has a considerable prevalence of use. Due to high abuse prevalence and very new challenging phenomenon, it is very important that researchers and treatment providers become more familiar with differ...

A Plea for Harm Reduction Policing Involving People Who Use Drugs