The influence of needle exchange programs on injection risk behaviors and infection with hepatitis C virus among young injection drug users in select cities in the United States, 1994–2004

2009 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Holtzman ◽  
Vaughn Barry ◽  
Lawrence J. Ouellet ◽  
Don C. Des Jarlais ◽  
David Vlahov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Hepatitis C ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Injection Drug Users ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Needle Exchange ◽  
The United States ◽  
Exchange Programs ◽  
Needle Exchange Programs ◽  
Injection Risk

Ethical Issues Raised by Needle Exchange Programs

1995 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 382-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sana Loue ◽  
Peter Lurie ◽  
Linda S. Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Injection Drug Users ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
United States Public Health ◽  
Needle Exchange ◽  
The United States ◽  
Exchange Programs ◽  
Needle Exchange Programs

United States public health experts have long expressed concern about the prevalence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among injection drug users (IDUs). The United States has the largest reported IDU population in the world: 1.1 to 1.5 million. Recent estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggest that 50 percent of incident HIV infections occur among IDUs, with additional infections occurring among their sex partners and offspring. More than 33 percent of new AIDS cases occur in IDUs, their sexual partners, and their children. Almost one half of all women diagnosed with AIDS in the United States are IDUS. Many of the remaining infected women were infected as a result of sex with a male IDU.While public health agencies, legislators, community leaders, and religious groups have engaged in vigorous debate over the merits of needle exchange programs (NEPs) as an intervention to reduce HIV transmission, the programs, some legal and some illegal, have been implemented in fifty-five cities across the country.

Profiles of Self-Reported HIV-Risk Behaviors Among Injection Drug Users in Methadone Maintenance Treatment, Detoxification, and Needle Exchange Programs

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayley Diana Mark ◽  
Joy Nanda ◽  
Annet Davis-Vogel ◽  
Helen Navaline ◽  
Roseanne Scotti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Hiv Risk ◽  
Methadone Maintenance Treatment ◽  
Injection Drug Users ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Maintenance Treatment ◽  
Methadone Maintenance ◽  
Needle Exchange ◽  
Exchange Programs ◽  
Needle Exchange Programs

A Tale of Two Countries: Attempts to Control HIV among Injecting Drug Users in Australia and the United States

1997 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Wodak ◽  
Peter Lurie
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Harm Reduction ◽  
Injection Drug Users ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Methadone Maintenance ◽  
Good Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Exchange Programs ◽  
Needle Exchange Programs ◽  
Reduction Strategies

Prevalence of injectable drug use is surprisingly similar in Australia and the United States. HIV prevalence among injection drug users (IDUs) is less than 5% in Australia and about 14% in the United States. IDUs accounted for 2.5% of AIDS cases in Australia in 1994 and 28% in the United States in 1993. Harm reduction was officially adopted in Australia in 1985 but has been explicitly rejected by the U.S. government. In 1994, needle programs exchanged over 10 million syringes from over 4,000 outlets in Australia while 55 needle exchange programs in the United States exchanged almost eight million syringes. Since 1985, methadone maintenance expanded almost ten-fold in Australia but barely increased in the United States. Timely and vigorous adoption of harm reduction strategies in Australia and the relative lack of such programs in the United States is the most plausible explanation for the good control of HIV among IDUs in Australia and poor control in the United States.

Multiple Access to Sterile Syringes for Injection Drug Users: Vending Machines, Needle Exchange Programs and Legal Pharmacy Sales in Marseille, France

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.P. Moatti ◽  
D. Vlahov ◽  
I. Feroni ◽  
V. Perrin ◽  
Y. Obadia
Keyword(s):  
Injection Drug Users ◽  
Multiple Access ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Needle Exchange ◽  
Injection Drug ◽  
Exchange Programs ◽  
Needle Exchange Programs ◽  
Vending Machines

A peer-education intervention to reduce injection risk behaviors for HIV and hepatitis C virus infection in young injection drug users

AIDS ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (14) ◽  
pp. 1923-1932 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard S Garfein ◽  
Elizabeth T Golub ◽  
Alan E Greenberg ◽  
Holly Hagan ◽  
Debra L Hanson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hepatitis C Virus ◽  
Hepatitis C ◽  
Virus Infection ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Injection Drug Users ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Peer Education ◽  
Education Intervention ◽  
Hepatitis C Virus Infection ◽  
Injection Risk

Proximity to needle exchange programs and HIV-related risk behavior among injection drug users in Harlem

2004 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert F. Schilling ◽  
Jorge Fontdevila ◽  
Daniel Fernando ◽  
Nabila El-Bassel ◽  
Edgar Monterroso
Keyword(s):  
Risk Behavior ◽  
Injection Drug Users ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Needle Exchange ◽  
Injection Drug ◽  
Exchange Programs ◽  
Needle Exchange Programs ◽  
Related Risk
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