background research predicting the public health and fiscal impact of supervised injection facilities (sifs), across different cities in canada, has reported positive results on the reduction of hiv cases among people who inject drugs (pwid). most of the existing studies have focused on the outcomes of insite, located in the vancouver downtown eastside (dtes). previous attention has not been af...

background: it is unclear whether knowing of current hiv status is associated with change in injecting behaviors among people who inject drugs (pwid) in iran. the objective of the present study was to determine whether awareness of hiv positive status is associated with a reduction in injecting risk behaviors, after matching for socio-demographic characteristics . methods : five hundred male pw...

conclusions we found a large impact due to nsps for reducing the occurance of hiv among active drug injectors who have been provided sufficient needles and syringes. the coverage of nsps needs to be increased to observe such significant impact. results given the output of the model, we found that among the pwid with sufficient coverage of nsps the hiv rate is 1.02%, while those with insufficien...

the marked shift in the patterns of drug use in iran, from opium smoking to injecting drug use, has led to serious health-related outcomes. this study was designed to explore characteristics of people who inject drugs (pwid) in tehran, iran. nine hundred and four pwid were recruited from treatment and harm reduction facilities, as well as drug user hangouts in public areas in tehran. participan...

despite the fact that hiv epidemic is mainly driven by injection drug use in iran, partners of people who inject drugs (pwid) have been seriously neglected in terms of effective preventive interventions. currently, sexual partners of pwid might have access to some harm reduction services at voluntary counselling and testing (vct) centers; however, their needs have not been effectively targeted ...

context aboriginal and torres strait islanders (aboriginal) account for approximately 3% of the australian population. they have the poorest health, economic and social outcomes. higher notification rates of hepatitis c antibodies (anti-hcv) have been reported among aboriginal compared with non-aboriginal people. the identification of aboriginal people in national surveillance has some weakness...