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Bleaching of syringes has been advocated to prevent HIV-1 transmission among injection drug users (IDUs). Bleach is frequently distributed by needle exchange, outreach, and educational programs targeting IDUs. We applied a sensitive [...]
Auteur N. ABDALA
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ENGLISH : Aims Home-made preparation of heroin is common in countries of the former Soviet Union (FSU), and the addition of blood during its preparation and the use of contaminated syringes to distribute it may play a role in the rapid spread [...]
ENGLISH : In response to recent concerns about risk of HIV-1 transmission from drug injection paraphernalia such as cookers, ethnographic methods were used to develop a descriptive typology of the paraphernalia and practices used to prepare an[...]
N. ABDALA ; R. REYES ; CARNET J. M. ; R. HEIMER | 2000
Dans Substance Use and Misuse (Vol.35 n°10, 2000) Article : PériodiqueFRANÇAIS : Une enquête a été réalisée afin de déterminer les effets de la température sur la survie du VIH-1 stocké dans une seringue. A 4°C, le VIH-1 est viable dans 50 % des seringues après 42 jours de stockage, période de conservation la plu[...]
ENGLISH : Bleaching of syringes has been advocated to prevent HIV transmission among injection drug users (IDUs). Several reports indicate that IDUs use household products to disinfect syringes instead of bleach. To test their disinfection eff[...]
