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History of HIV and AIDS
The Battle for Needle Exchange, as AIDS Raged

In the '80s, HIV was killing tens of thousands of heroin addicts. Yet swapping clean needles for dirty ones remained illegal—until a ragtag group of AIDS activists put their bodies on the line.

Published
14 March 2013
From
The Fix
Injecting drug use
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.

Published
13 March 2013
From
UNAIDS
Prisoners
Defusing Scotland's HIV prison timebomb

Twenty years after Glenochil’s notorious outbreak, Roy Kilpatrick looks at how progress has been made to help inmates.

Published
11 March 2013
From
Herald Scotland
Injecting drug users
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.

Published
06 March 2013
From
BBC Health
Prisoners
Give needles, condoms to inmates to curb HIV, experts urge

Giving inmates drug substitution treatment, needles and condoms are key ways to help curb addiction and HIV infection in European jails, experts say, calling on authorities to change their approach to prison health care. "We support opioid substitution treatment and harm reduction measures, including needle exchange programmes. These measures are crucial, otherwise we cannot tackle HIV and other infections in prisons," Stefan Enggist of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said during an international conference on addiction in prisons organised by the Council of Europe this week in Bucharest.

Published
01 March 2013
From
Medical Xpress
Injecting drug use
New treatment gives hope to East Africa’s drug users

The United Republic of Tanzania is the first mainland sub-Saharan country to launch a national methadone programme as part of its battle to fight the twin epidemics of heroin addiction and HIV infection.

Published
21 February 2013
From
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Hepatitis B
Study: One-third of hepatitis B and C cases in Pakistan are preventable

Approximately one-third of all hepatitis B and C cases in Pakistan could be prevented by interventions directed towards a few modifiable risk factors, according to a recent study.

Published
14 February 2013
From
Vaccine News Daily (blog)
HIV prevention policy
Making recovery real: the public health future of drug and alcohol treatment

In October last year, the NTA held a series of events for service providers, commissioners, service users and others on Making Recovery Real: the public health future of drug and alcohol treatment.

Published
12 February 2013
From
National Treatment Agency
Recreational drug use
Crystal meth and London gay men – examining the evidence

Last month the medical journal The Lancet published a news feature, describing an increasing number of London gay men who take methamphetamine (crystal meth), including a significant

Published
11 February 2013
By
Roger Pebody
Hepatitis C transmission and prevention
The Evolution of How Drug Injection Equipment Harbors Hep C

We know that injection drug users represent the single largest risk group for Hepatitis C, but we just recently learned how vulnerable their equipment is.

Published
06 February 2013
From
Hepatitis Central
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