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  Collaborative TB and HIV services for drug users

  Review of implementing collaborative TB/HIV activities for injecting drug users, with case studies from Brazil, Ukraine, Zanzibar and India. ...

  From:  HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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  Harm reduction and human rights

  Harm reduction for injecting drug users, including clean needles and syringes and opiate substitution therapy, is extremely limited in some regions of the world. Harm reduction...

  From:  HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

Injecting drug users news from aidsmap

• Support improves hepatitis C treatment completion and response rates among drug users

  Hepatitis C treatment completion and response rates among injecting drug users are similar to those seen in general patient populations, the findings of a meta-analysis published in the online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases show. The best outcomes were seen ...

  02 January 2013 | Michael Carter

• Starting HIV treatment reduces risky sexual behaviour among injecting drug users

  Starting antiretroviral therapy is associated with reductions in sexual risk-taking and injecting among HIV-positive drug users, according to US research published in the online edition of AIDS.  There was a 75% reduction in the risk of unprotected sex, whereas the ...

  06 November 2012 | Michael Carter

• Opiate substitution therapy halves HIV risk for people who inject drugs

  Opiate substitution therapy reduces the risk of HIV infection by half for individuals who inject drugs, according to the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis published in the British Medical Journal. “There is evidence from published and unpublished observational ...

  15 October 2012 | Michael Carter

• Massive increase of hepatitis C incidence in HIV-positive gay men in Switzerland

  Incidence of hepatitis C virus infections has increased eighteen fold in HIV-positive gay men in Switzerland since 1998, investigators report in the online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Half of all infections in gay men occurred between 2008 and ...

  30 August 2012 | Michael Carter

• Which interventions are best to reduce HIV infections among drug users?

  HIV infections among drug users currently make up 30% of new infections globally. Their social marginalisation makes them an especially difficult group to target for public health and HIV interventions. Yet researchers, civil society, and drug user organisations are considering ...

  01 August 2012 | Mara Kardas-Nelson

• International AIDS Conference hears how drugs, sex and HIV interlock

  Two sessions at the 19th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington looked at the way injecting drug use, recreational drug use and unsafe sex interlock to multiply HIV risk, and how new outbreaks of injecting drug use ...

  25 July 2012 | Gus Cairns

• Syringe exchange expansion in United States would be cost-saving

  According to a mathematical analysis presented at the 19th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington, DC, providing clean syringes to reduce HIV transmission among Americans who inject drugs is considerably less expensive than treating the new cases of HIV ...

  24 July 2012 | Kelly Safreed-Harmon

• Active injecting drug users must be provided with adherence support when they start HIV therapy

  Chances of achieving an undetectable viral load are equally poor for patients who inject heroin, cocaine, or a combination of these two drugs, Canadian researchers report in Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Between 56 and 58% of people who injected ...

  20 June 2012 | Michael Carter

• Gay and bisexual men who inject drugs more likely to have HIV than other men who inject drugs

  HIV prevalence is four times higher in gay and bisexual men who inject drugs, compared to heterosexual, male, injecting drug users, UK investigators report in Sexually Transmitted Infections. The study also showed that prevalence of infection with the hepatitis ...

  30 May 2012 | Michael Carter

• Canadian cohort shows viral suppression most likely with atazanavir/ritonavir-based HIV treatment after 6 months

  Antiretroviral therapy based on the ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitor atazanavir (Reyataz) was more likely to achieve virological suppression after six months than treatment containing the non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) efavirenz (Sustiva, also in the combination pill Atripla) among people ...

  11 May 2012 | Michael Carter

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• HIV high on the agenda at the fifty-sixth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs

  At the fifty-sixth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, which is running from 11-15 March, drug use and HIV will be addressed through a number of channels, including a draft resolution calling for the intensification of efforts to reduce HIV to attain the targets of the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS.

  13 March 2013 | UNAIDS

• Heroin and crack use 'plummeting'

  The number of heroin and crack users in England is "plummeting", according to the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse.

  06 March 2013 | BBC Health

• Managing tuberculosis in people who use and inject illicit drugs

  The prevention, diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis among people who use illicit drugs have been neglected and require immediate attention. Open dialogue on policy in this area should be encouraged, and a coordinated programme response from stakeholders working in prisons and in harm reduction, HIV infection, hepatitis and tuberculosis services should be sought.

  04 February 2013 | Bulletin of the World Health Organization

• Spread of hepatitis C pinpointed

  Scientists say they have, for the first time, worked out the pattern of spread of hepatitis C, showing that early diagnosis is key to halting epidemics.

  01 February 2013 | BBC Health

• Is London’s gay scene self-harming through sex and drug use?

  David Stuart of gay men's drug project Antidote discusses increases in the use of methamphetamine and mephedrone in London's gay scene and an increased tendency to inject them.

  24 January 2013 | Pink News

• One out of ten fishermen infected with HIV

  MORE than one in every ten fishermen in Kuantan are infected with HIV mainly due to drug injections, a new study shows.

  23 January 2013 | Malay Mail

• Better Syringe Designs Could Nearly Eradicate Global Annual HIV Infections from Syringe Sharing Within Eight Years

  Switching the type of syringe used by people who inject drugs could help curb HIV transmission in countries with injection-driven epidemics within eight years, according to a new article which summarizes existing evidence regarding how low dead-space syringes can help reduce HIV transmission and estimates potential impacts on HIV transmission among people who inject drugs.

  16 January 2013 | Newswise (press release)

• Greece HIV Remedies Hit as Crisis Threatens Drug Curbs

  Greece’s efforts to control its debt crisis threaten to hobble the fight against an outbreak of HIV that has become the largest among drug users in the European Union.

  09 January 2013 | Bloomberg

• Drug policy in Indonesia

  There are estimated to be more than 100,000 people who inject drugs in Indonesia, a third of whom are living with HIV. Although Indonesia has introduced and supported health- focused harm reduction services for people who inject drugs, the national policy response to drugs remains predominantly focused on the use of law enforcement measures.

  09 January 2013 | International Drug Policy Consortium

• Rising Death in the Streets of Athens: The Human Toll of the Greek Tragedy

  As Greece enters its third year of financial crisis, economic hardship and despair is fraying the country's social fabric. "The economic crisis has affected dramatically the lives of all Greeks, but people who use drugs were the hardest hit", says Charalampos Poulopoulos, director of the Therapy Center for Dependent Individuals (KETHEA).

  07 January 2013 | Huffington Post

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