Individual-level needle and syringe coverage in Melbourne, Australia: a longitudinal, descriptive analysis
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Individual-level needle and syringe coverage in Melbourne, Australia: a longitudinal, descriptive analysis
BACKGROUND Coverage is used as one indicator of needle and syringe program (NSP) effectiveness. At the individual level, coverage is typically defined as an estimate of the proportion of a person who injects drugs' (PWID) injecting episodes that utilise a sterile syringe. In this paper, we explore levels of individual syringe coverage and its changes over time. METHODS Data were extracted fro...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Health Services Research
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1472-6963
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-016-1668-z