Drug injection within prison in Kyrgyzstan: elevated HIV risk and implications for scaling up opioid agonist treatments.
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DOI: 10.1108/ijph-03-2017-0016
Abstract: Purpose Within-prison drug injection (WPDI) is a particularly high HIV risk behavior, yet has not been examined in Central Asia. A unique opportunity in Kyrgyzstan where both methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) and needle-syringe programs (NSP)… read more here.
Keywords: within prison; risk; hiv; drug ... See more keywords
Understanding how, why, for whom, and under what circumstances opt-out blood-borne virus testing programmes work to increase test engagement and uptake within prison: a rapid-realist review
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DOI: 10.1186/s12913-019-3970-z
Abstract: BackgroundPrisons represent a unique opportunity to diagnose blood-borne viruses. Opt-out testing is receiving increasing interest, as a result of mounting evidence to suggest that the manner in which a test offer is delivered, affects test… read more here.
Keywords: within prison; opt testing; blood borne; review ... See more keywords