Historique
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Preventing HIV infection among injecting drug users in high risk countries: an assessment of the evidence
(Prévenir l'infection au VIH chez les usagers de drogue par injection dans les pays à haut risque : une évaluation de l'évidence)
Auteur(s) :
Committee on the Prevention of HIV Infection among Injecting Drug Users in High-Risk Countries
Année
2006
Page(s) :
298 p.
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Éditeur(s) :
Washington, DC : National Academies Press
ISBN :
978-0-309-10280-3
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Discipline :
MAL (Maladies infectieuses / Infectious diseases)
Thésaurus géographique
EUROPE DE L'EST
;
AFRIQUE
;
ASIE
Thésaurus mots-clés
VIH
;
FACTEUR DE RISQUE
;
INFECTION
;
PREVENTION
;
INJECTION
;
EVALUATION
;
SERINGUE
;
PREVENTION DE PROXIMITE
;
ECHANGE DE SERINGUES
;
TRAITEMENT
Résumé :
Countries where HIV/AIDS rates are escalating because of injection drug use can and should act immediately to curb the spread of infection. Evidence shows that a number of strategies - including drug treatment, access to clean needles and syringes, and outreach to drug users - are effective at decreasing risky drug-related behavior when used in a multicomponent approach and should be implemented where feasible. But each affected nation will have to determine the best combination of interventions for its economic, cultural, and social circumstances. Although sub-Saharan Africa remains the area hardest hit by AIDS, this report focuses on Eastern European countries, former Soviet republics, and several parts of Asia, where HIV infection rates have increased by as much as 20 times over two decades as a result of injection drug use. Injection drug users spread HIV not only by sharing contaminated paraphernalia, but also by passing the virus to their sex partners and to newborns through mother-to-child transmission. (From the editor' s abstract)
Affiliation :
Etats-Unis. United States.