- Title
- Policy Brief: Provision of Sterile Injecting Equipment to Reduce HIV Transmission
- In
- Evidence for action on HIV/AIDS and injecting drug use
- Description of Work
- WHO/HIV/2004.03
- Imprint
- WHO - World Health Organization, Geneva, 2004, 4 pp
- Description
Reproduced with WHO's kind permission.
- Abstract
"The provision of access to sterile injection equipment for injecting drug users and the encouragement of its use are essential components of HIV/AIDS prevention programmes, and should be seen as a part of overall comprehensive strategies to reduce the demand for illicit drugs. The equipment is provided through a great variety of approaches categorized as needle and syringe programmes, the goals of which are that drug users have their own sterile injecting equipment and do not share it with others, that the circulation time of used needles and syringes is reduced and that used equipment is disposed of safely."
Related Entries
Inter-Governmental Organisations
- The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, United Nations (1996 - )
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, United Nations (1997 - )
- World Health Organization, United Nations (1948 - )
Topics
Related Published Resources
isReferencedBy
- Trace, Mike, Diane Riley and Gerry Stimson, UNAIDS & the Prevention of HIV Infection Through Injecting Drug Use, Briefing Paper Nine, BFDPP - The Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme and IDPC - The International Drug Policy Consortium, September 2005, 7 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
isRelated
- Policy Brief: Reduction of HIV Transmission in Prisons, Evidence for action on HIV/AIDS and injecting drug use, WHO/HIV/2004.05, WHO - World Health Organization, Geneva, 2004, 4 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- Policy Brief: Reduction of HIV Transmission Through Drug Dependence Treatment, Evidence for action on HIV/AIDS and injecting drug use, WHO/HIV/2004.04, WHO - World Health Organization, Geneva, 2004, 4 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- Policy Brief: Reduction of HIV Transmission Through Outreach, Evidence for action on HIV/AIDS and injecting drug use, WHO/HIV/2004.02, WHO - World Health Organization, Geneva, 2004, 4 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- WHO - World Health Organization, UNAIDS - The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Policy Brief: Antiretroviral Therapy and Injecting Drug Users, Evidence for Action on HIV/AIDS and Injecting Drug Use, WHO/HIV/2005.06, WHO - World Health Organization, Geneva, 2005. [ PDF File | Details... ]