A decline in HIV-infected needles returned to New Haven's needle exchange program: client shift or needle exchange?
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Needle exchange: panacea or problem?
DE NOMBREUSES DONNÉES PROBANTES INDIQUENT que les programmes d’échange d’aiguilles sont rentables et peuvent aider à contrôler la transmission de l’infection par le VIH chez les consommateurs de drogues injectées. Ils peuvent toutefois être moins efficaces dans le cas des personnes qui s’injectent de la cocaïne, dont le nombre est à la hausse, et l’on craint que, en attirant les consommateurs d...
متن کاملHIV prevalence remains low among Calgary's needle exchange program participants.
OBJECTIVES To determine the demographic characteristics, risk behaviours and prevalence of HIV-1 among injection drug users (IDU) attending Calgary's needle exchange program (NEP). METHODS A survey was conducted from June through September 1998 among IDU attending Calgary's NEP. Demographic and behaviour characteristics were determined by personal interview and saliva was tested for HIV antib...
متن کاملDiscarded needles do not increase soon after the opening of a needle exchange program.
This study examines the effect of a Needle Exchange Program (NEP) on the quantity and geographic distribution of discarded needles on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland, and presents methods to survey discarded needles in the community. A random sample of 32 city blocks located within high-drug-use census tracts, stratified by east and west sides of the city and by proximity to the NEP, was sel...
متن کاملThe role of needle exchange programs in HIV prevention.
Injecting drug users (IDUs) are at high risk for infection by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other blood-borne pathogens. In the United States, IDUs account for nearly one-third of the cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), either directly or indirectly (heterosexual and perinatal cases of AIDS where the source of infection was an IDU). IDU also account for a substantial pr...
متن کاملEvaluation of needle exchange programs.
Needle exchange programs exist in every major population area in the United States and in many other countries. Some operate legally under emergency health decrees issued by local departments of health, with the stated intention of risk reduction through the removal of used injection equipment from use by injection drug users. It is theorized that this results in a reduced transmission of human...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.84.12.1991