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Difficult-to-reuse needles for the prevention of HIV infection among injecting drug users

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Jarlais, Don Des
Copyright Year	1992
Abstract	Substance abuse is a major social problem with enormous human and economic costs against which the United States directs significant resources for law enforcement, interdiction, treatment, and prevention. Greatly increasing the costs of substance abuse is the problem of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among persons who inject illicit drugs. In the United States, approximately one-third of all cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has been associated with the sharing of drug injection equipment either as a direct risk behavior or by being the child or sexual partner of someone who injects illicit drugs. A wide variety of prevention programs-from drug abuse treatment to over-the-counter sales of injection equipment to syringe exchange to bleach distribution-have led to large-scale reductions in AIDS risk behavior among injecting drug users. No prevention program, however, has led to complete risk elimination, and the persistence of new HIV infections among injecting drug users in places such as Amsterdam in the Netherlands (which has developed a relatively comprehensive AIDS prevention program) suggests the need for new strategies. The use of either single-use, self-destructing, non-reusable or autodestruct injection equipment has received some attention as a possible means for further reducing HIV transmission among injecting drug users.
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Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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