- Authors
- Pinkham S and K Malinowska-Sempruch
- Title
- Women, Harm Reduction, and HIV
- Imprint
- Open Society Institute, New York, September 2007, 33 pp
- Description
Reproduced with the kind permission of the Open Society Institute.
- Abstract
'Increasing women drug users’ access to needed services, including drug treatment, harm reduction, and sexual and reproductive health care services, is crucial. Achieving this goal requires policies that encourage women to seek drug treatment and harm reduction rather than punishing or stigmatizing them for drug use during pregnancy or motherhood; increased availability of medication-assisted treatment; incorporation of sexual and reproductive health and other women’s services into harm reduction programs; flexible, low-threshold services that are more convenient for women with children; and links between harm reduction, drug treatment, women’s shelters, and violence prevention services."