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Filters Content type: News, Editors' picks Topic: Harm reduction

Harm reduction programmes and practices aim to reduce the harms associated with drug use. These include needle and syringe programmes, opioid substitution therapy, drug consumption rooms and overdose prevention.

Epidemiology & behaviour

One out of ten fishermen infected with HIV

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Malay Mail
23 January 2013
Harm reduction

Insite - Not Just Injecting, But Connecting

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Drug Reporter
21 January 2013
Harm reduction

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

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Newswise (press release)
16 January 2013
Chemsex & recreational drug use

High-risk drug practices tighten grip on London gay scene

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The Lancet
11 January 2013
Government, leadership & policy

Greece HIV Remedies Hit as Crisis Threatens Drug Curbs

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Bloomberg
9 January 2013
People who inject drugs

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

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Huffington Post
7 January 2013
Harm reduction

Naloxone Is Cost-effective Way to Prevent Heroin Overdose Deaths

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HIVandHepatitis.com
4 January 2013
Drug policy & policing

Consider drugs decriminalisation system, MPs say

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BBC
10 December 2012
Harm reduction

New EMCDDA report shows heroin use in decline and patterns of drug use shifting

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European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
5 December 2012
Epidemiology

Ukraine fights spreading HIV epidemic

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Huffington Post
1 December 2012
Epidemiology

New HIV epidemic looms over Romania

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IPS
1 December 2012
Harm reduction

Wider Availability of Methadone Helps Curb HIV in Vietnam

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Voice of America
1 December 2012
Finance & funding

Health officials tell Greece to act fast to control HIV

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Reuters
1 December 2012
Harm reduction

New HIV Epidemic Looms over Romania

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Inter Press Service
30 November 2012
HIV prevention policy

Michel Kazatchkine: Change in attitude needed in eastern Europe and central Asia

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Financial Times
30 November 2012
Harm reduction

HIV Soars Among Greece's Drug Users While Programs Cut

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Bloomberg BusinessWeek
30 November 2012
Hepatitis C transmission & prevention

Sharing drug preparation equipment a potential source of hepatitis C transmission

News
27 November 2012
Harm reduction

Vietnam’s largest, and very successful, harm reduction programme

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International HIV/AIDS Alliance
26 November 2012
Harm reduction

UNAIDS Report: No Love for Drug Users

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Open Society Foundations
26 November 2012
Harm reduction

THAILAND: Question marks over new approach to drug-users

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IRIN
26 November 2012
Harm reduction

Outbreaks of HIV among IDUs in Greece and Romania — preliminary data suggest no signs of a slowing down in 2012

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European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
16 November 2012
Chemsex & recreational drug use

Meth vaccine shows promising results in early tests

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Scripps Research Institute
1 November 2012
Drug policy & policing

Ten Years After Decriminalization, Drug Abuse Down by Half in Portugal

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Forbes Magazine
31 October 2012
Harm reduction

Political unity 'broken' on Scotland's drugs policy

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BBC
31 October 2012