Category Archives: Drug use behaviours/harm reduction
Tuberculosis, injecting drug use and integrated HIV-TB care: A review of the literature
2013
BACKGROUND: People who inject drugs (PWID) are at increased risk of tuberculosis (TB) and reduced retention in treatment. There is a need to document strategies for integrated delivery of HIV,...
People who use drugs, HIV, and human rights
2010
We reviewed evidence from more than 900 studies and reports on the link between human rights abuses experienced by people who use drugs and vulnerability to HIV infection and access...
HIV risk behavior self-report reliability at different recall periods
2010
Few studies have investigated the optimal length of recall period for self-report of sex and drug-use behaviors. This meta-analysis of 28 studies examined the test-retest reliability of three commonly used...
Motivational interviewing
2005
Motivational interviewing (MI) is a client-centered, directive therapeutic style to enhance readiness for change by helping clients explore and resolve ambivalence. An evolution of Rogers’s person-centered counseling approach, MI elicits...
Drug abuse treatment as an HIV prevention strategy: A review
2000
We review drug abuse treatment as a means of preventing infection with HIV. Thirty-three studies, with an aggregate of over seventeen thousand subjects, were published in peer-reviewed journals from 1988–1998....
The effectiveness of opioid maintenance treatment in prison settings: A systematic review
2012
AIMS: To review evidence on the effectiveness of opioid maintenance treatment (OMT) in prison and post-release. METHODS: Systematic review of experimental and observational studies of prisoners receiving OMT regarding treatment...
HIV prevention, treatment, and care services for people who inject drugs: A systematic review of global, regional, and national coverage
2010
Background: Previous reviews have examined the existence of HIV prevention, treatment, and care services for injecting drug users (IDUs) worldwide, but they did not quantify the scale of coverage. We...
Psychosocial interventions for the reduction of injection and sexual risk behaviour for preventing HIV in drug users
2010
BACKGROUND: Drug users (including both injection drug users and crack cocaine users), are at high levels of risk for contracting HIV. Therefore it is important to reduce the injection and/or...
The HIV/AIDS prevention research synthesis project: Scope, methods, and study classification results
2002
In 1996, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in collaboration with many partners, initiated the HIV/AIDS Prevention Research Synthesis (PRS) project to accumulate HIV prevention research studies and...
HIV trends and related risk factors among men having sex with men in mainland China: Findings from a systematic literature review
2011
The purpose of this study was to assess trends in the HIV epidemic and risk factors for HIV infection among men having sex with men (MSM) in mainland China. A...
Global epidemiology of injecting drug use and HIV among people who inject drugs: A systematic review
2008
Background: Injecting drug use is an increasingly important cause of HIV transmission in most countries worldwide. Our aim was to determine the prevalence of injecting drug use among individuals aged...
Reducing the transmission of HIV-1: Needle bleaching as a means of disinfection
2000
OBJECTIVE: To review the efficacy, safety, and proper methods for use of bleach (sodium hypochlorite) as a means of needle disinfection. DATA SOURCES: Controlled studies cited in MEDLINE between 1966...
