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Injecting drug users' experiences of targeted harm reduction in the Russian Federation
(Expérience d'actions ciblées de réduction des risques chez les usagers de drogues injecteurs dans la Fédération de Russie)
Auteur(s) :
POWER, R. ;
NOZHKINA N. ;
KANARSKY I.
Année
2005
Page(s) :
69-77
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
22
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Discipline :
MAL (Maladies infectieuses / Infectious diseases)
Thésaurus mots-clés
TOXICOMANE
;
INJECTION
;
CONDUITE A RISQUE
;
VIH
;
CONTAMINATION
;
REDUCTION DES RISQUES ET DES DOMMAGES
;
ECHANGE DE SERINGUES
;
PROGRAMME
Thésaurus géographique
RUSSIE
Note générale :
Drug and Alcohol Review, 2005, 24, (1), 69-77
Résumé :
ENGLISH :
Since the fall of the former Soviet Union, and the disruptive, political, economic and social changes which followed, there have been well documented outbreaks of HIV and other blood-borne infections among injecting drug users (IDUs) in the Russian Federation and elsewhere in Central and Eastern Europe. Research in The Russian Federation has shown that, as elsewhere in the world, needle and syringe exchange programs contributed to a decrease in HIV risk behaviour among IDUs. In this paper, Robert Power and his Russian colleagues describe the impact on clients of such harm reduction interventions in one region of the Russian Federation. They show that successful interventions such as NSEP and outreach can be implemented, individual behaviour change is evident among IDUs, an indigenous NGO sector has evolved, and the skills of workers have improved. Yet their optimism is tempered by ongoing systemic barriers to successful harm reduction which need to be addressed to prevent the spread of HIV and other blood-borne infections in the Russian Federation. (Editor's abstract.)
Affiliation :
University College London, Mortimer Market Ctr, London. Email : rpowergum.ucl.ac.uk
Royaume-Uni. United Kingdom.
Royaume-Uni. United Kingdom.