While the provision of harm reduction in each of these countries' prisons varies considerably, certain key themes and lessons can be distilled, including around features of an enabling environment for harm reduction, resource allocation, collection of disaggregated data, and accessibility of services....
This increase can sometimes mask important challenges in equity: in several countries PWID are the most likely to be infected with HIV while being the least likely to be receiving care and ART. Therefore, concentrated efforts need to continue toward the goal of having mainstream harm reduction ...
This increase can sometimes mask important challenges in equity: in several countries PWID are the most likely to be infected with HIV while being the least likely to be receiving care and ART. Therefore, concentrated efforts need to continue toward the goal of having mainstream harm reduction ...
Both on a global and a regional basis, the World Health Organization (WHO) has set prominent goals for the turn of the millennium on the reduction of harms... Fischer,B,Kendall,... - 《Public Health》 被引量: 37发表: 1997年 The Economic Costs of Noncommunicable Diseases in the Pacific...
Groups That Change The Meaning Of Harm Reduction Initiatives Sex Workers Female sex workers: Promotion of condoms reduces the incidence of HIV by 93% in sex workers and their clients in low-and middle-income countries [23]. Long-Term Intravenous Drug Users ...
In Canada, as in many other countries, harm reduction programming is a central component of public health strategies. Harm reduction emphasizes interventions that minimize the drug and health harms associated with alcohol and/or drug use (e.g., overdose, infectious diseases, etc.) while not requi...
Crime and violence are now a key development issue for Central American countries. In three nations El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras crime rates are am... W Bank - 《World Bank Other Operational Studies》 被引量: 123发表: 2010年 Harm reduction and equity of access to care for French ...
Xylazine in overdose deaths and forensic drug reports in US States, 2019–2022. JAMA Netw Open. 2024;7(1):e2350630. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.50630. PMID: 38180756; PMCID: PMC10770774. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Cauchon D. Harm Reduction Ohio [...
Illicit drug use has become popular in China. Acknowledging the challenge of illicit drug use, China has adopted several new policies on the management of illicit drug use in recent years. This study reviews the current policies on drug use and assesses the harm reduction interventions among drug...
See the impact of tobacco harm reduction across the world Our case studies reveal the impact of tobacco harm reduction on smoking rates in countries that have embraced smoke-free products compared to those that haven’t. Smoke-free alternatives could deliver a 10-fold reduction in smoking-...