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Filters Content type: News, Editors' picks, About HIV 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

HIV infections soar amongst Eastern European 'street youth'

News
20 July 2010
People who inject drugs

New PEPFAR guidance authorises funding for needle exchange and wide range of services for people who inject drugs.

Editor's pick
PEPFAR
19 July 2010
Harm reduction

Limits to methadone prescription proposed by UK drugs agency

Editor's pick
The Guardian
19 July 2010
Harm reduction

New Trend Increases HIV Risk for Heroin Users

Editor's pick
New York Times
17 July 2010
Epidemiology & behaviour

Eastern European Countries Show Increasing New HIV Infections While Some Harm Reduction Programmes Are Decreasing

Editor's pick
HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today
16 July 2010
Drug policy & policing

Criminalization of drugs and drug users fuels HIV; laws should be reviewed, say experts

Editor's pick
Science Daily
13 July 2010
Harm reduction

Methadone 'works and saves lives'

Editor's pick
BBC Health
8 July 2010
Transmission & prevention

Vienna declaration calls for science-based drug policies

News
30 June 2010
Human rights

Harm reduction and human rights

News
28 May 2010
Chemsex & recreational drug use

Counselling as well as drug treatment needed to reduce risky behaviour in opioid-using youth

News
30 April 2010
Hepatitis C transmission & prevention

Hepatitis C virus can survive in syringes for up to 63 days

News
20 February 2010
Chemsex & recreational drug use

Retention in opioid replacement programmes improves chances of HIV treatment working for drug users

News
29 October 2009
People who inject drugs

UK report highlights homelessness link to IDUs acquiring hepatitis C, but not HIV

News
1 November 2007
Hepatitis & HIV

Safer crack-smoking resources as a viable addition to comprehensive harm reduction programs for reducing HIV and HCV transmission

News
4 September 2006
Epidemiology

Russia will not give methadone to drug users, says health chief

News
23 May 2006
Epidemiology

Block on methadone for drug users in Eastern Europe biggest barrier to treatment

News
22 May 2006
Transmission & prevention

Does buprenorphine have a role in preventing HIV transmission and treating HIV-infected IDUs? (corrected)

News
2 September 2005
New & experimental HIV treatments

Methadone included, tenofovir excluded, from new WHO essential drugs list

News
4 July 2005
HIV treatment

World Health Organization asked to keep buprenorphine as a treatment option for heroin addiction

News
18 May 2004
Harm reduction

Adjusting methadone dosage on efavirenz: how much and when to do it

News
5 March 2001