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  • Harm minimisation
Summary

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This topic encompasses the spectrum of prevention-related strategies and services that seek to reduce the risk to individuals of either acquiring or transmitting HIV. It includes policy relating to HIV-infected people, injecting drug use and users' sex and needle-sharing partners, as well as access to counselling, testing and other prevention and support initiatives such as education and needle exchange programs.

Prepared by: Adam Bowles

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Published Resources

Journals

  • 'Development Bulletin', Special issue: HIV/AIDS: Implications for Development, no. 52, Development Studies Network, Australian National University, 2000, 77 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]

Reports

  • Partnerships in Practice: National HIV/AIDS Strategy 1996-97 to 1998-99, A strategy framed in the context of sexual health and related communicable diseases, Australian Government Publication Service, Canberra, December 1996, 87 pp. (Also available at http://www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/publishing.nsf/Content /2B40E281073B94C7CA256FBD007928B5$Filepip.pdf) [ Details... ]
  • HIV Prevention in Drug Users - Principles of Strategy, HIV Prevention in Hong Kong Strategy Series, AIDS Prevention and Care Committee, Hong Kong Advisory Council on AIDS, June 2001, 9 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • An Integrated Approach to Infectious Disease: Priorities for Action 2002-2006, Ministry of Health, Wellington, November 2001, 84 pp. (Also available at http://www.moh.govt.nz) [ Details... ]
  • National Action Plan on Illicit Drugs 2001 to 2002-03, Endorsed by the Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy, Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, Canberra, July 2001, 43 pp. (Also available at http://www.nationaldrugstrategy.gov.au/pdf/illicitactionplan.pdf) [ Details... ]
  • The Warsaw Declaration: A Framework for Effective Action on HIV/AIDS and Injecting Drug Use, 2nd International Policy Dialogue on HIV/AIDS, Government of Poland; UNAIDS - The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS; Health Canada; The Open Society Institute; CIDA - Canadian International Development Agency, November 2003, 6 pp. (Also available at http://www.soros.org/initiatives/health/focus/ihrd/articles_publications /articleswarsaw_20031127warsaw_declaration-nov-18-03.pdf) [ Details... ]
  • Aahung, Shazia Mohammad Habib Ahmed Afsar, Guidelines for BCC: Enhancing Content and Strategies for Harm Reduction Service Provision, National AIDS Control Programme (Pakistan) & Futures Group, Karachi, September 2004. (Also available at http://www.futuresgroup.com/Documents/GBCCPakistan.pdf) [ Details... ]
  • ACA Secretariat, LegCo Adjournment Debate on AIDS - ten years on, Advisory Council on AIDS Hong Kong, September 2004, 16 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • AFAO - Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations Inc., A Critical Time for Harm Reduction: The Need to Revitalise Harm Reduction in the Context of New National HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C and Drugs Stragegies - An AFAO Discussion Paper, AFAO, October 2004, 5 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • AHRN - Asian Harm Reduction Network, Scaling Up Anti-Retroviral Treatment to (Injecting) Drug Users in Asia, AHRN, Chiangmai, 2005, 4 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • AHRN - Asian Harm Reduction Network, Evidence-Based HIV/AIDS Prevention, AHRN, Chiangmai, 2005, 4 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • AIDS/STD Section, Disease Control Division, Department of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Malaysia, Plan of Action for the Prevention and Control of HIV Infection, Ministry of Health, Malaysia, 1998, 137 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Australian Government, Department of Health and Ageing, Australian Government Response to the 2002 Reviews of the National HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C Strategies and Strategic Research, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra, 2003, 72 pp. (Also available at http://www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/publishing.nsf/Content /health-pubhlth-publicat-document-metadata-hivhepc_response.htm$FILEhivhepc_response.pdf) [ Details... ]
  • Bezziccheri, Sonia and Wayne Bazant, Drugs and HIV in South East Asia: A Review of Critical Geographic Areas of HIV/AIDS Infection among Injecting Drug Users and of National Programme Responses in Cambodia, China, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam, UNODC - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Regional Centre for East Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, February 2004, 65 pp. (Also available at http://www.unodc.un.or.th/drugsandhiv/publications/HIV_AIDS.PDF) [ Details... ]
  • Bowtell, Bill, HIV/AIDS: The Looming Asia Pacific Pandemic, Lowy Institute Policy Brief, The Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney, March 2007, 20 pp. (Also available at http://www.lowyinstitute.org/) [ Details... ]
  • Csete, Joanne; Daniel Wolfe, Closed to Reason: The International Narcotics Control Board and HIV/AIDS, Open Society Institute/Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, February 2007, 37 pp. (Also available at http://www.soros.org/initiatives/health/focus/ihrd/articles_publications /publicationspublications_20070227closed_20070226.pdf) [ Details... ]
  • Deany, Paul, Drug-related HIV Risk, Livelihoods & Communities in Asia, Report on the UNDP Sponsored Session at the 12th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm New Delhi, India 1-5 April 2001 (2 parts), UNDP - United Nations Development Programme, 2001. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • Deany, Paul, Drug-related HIV Risk, Livelihoods & Communities in Asia - Part 2: Report of the UNDP Sponsored Panel Session, Report on the UNDP Sponsonsored Session at the 12th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm New Delhi, India 1-5 April 2001 (2 parts), UNDP - United Nations Development Programme, 2001, 37 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • Department of Health and Ageing, National HIV/AIDS Strategy: Revitalising Australia’s Response 2005-2008, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra, 2005, 66 pp. (Also available at http://www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/publishing.nsf/Content /3F25543027A178E9CA25710F0017AD3A$Filehivaids_strategy.pdf) [ Details... ]
  • Healthoutcomes International Pty Ltd; National Centre for HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research; and Michael Drummond, Return on Investment in Needle and Syringe Programs in Australia, Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra, 2002, 166 pp. (Also available at http://www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/Publishing.nsf/Content /health-pubhlth-publicat-document-roireport-cnt.htm$FILEroireport.pdf) [ Details... ]
  • India HIV/AIDS Alliance, Breaking New Ground Setting New Signposts: A Community-Based Care and Support Model for Injecting Drug Users Living with HIV - The SASO-Alliance Experience, India HIV/AIDS Alliance, New Delhi, December 2007, 34 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • International Harm Reduction Development Program (IHRD), Police, Harm Reduction, and HIV, Public Health Fact Sheet, Open Society Institute, Public Health Program, April 2008, 4 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • International HIV/AIDS Alliance, Positive Prevention: HIV Prevention with People Living with HIV - A Guide for NGOs and Service Providers, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, Brighton, September 2007, 36 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • Kamarulzaman, Adeeba, Harm Reduction in Asia: No More Time to Wait, 8th International Conference on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, Colombo 19-23 August 2007, August 2007, 34 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • MAP - Monitoring the AIDS Pandemic Network, AIDS in Asia: Face the Facts, MAP Report, MAP - Monitoring the AIDS Pandemic, 2004, 134 pp. (Also available at http://www.mapnetwork.org/docs/MAP_AIDSinAsia2004.pdf) [ Details... ]
  • Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy, National Drug Strategic Framework: Building Partnerships 1998-99 to 2002-03, A strategy to reduce the harm caused by drugs in our community, Ausinfo, Canberra, November 1998, 59 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy, National Drug Strategy: Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area Complementary Action Plan 2003-2006: Glossary, Ausinfo, Canberra, August 2003, 18 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy, National Drug Strategy: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' Complementary Action Plan 2003-2006: Background Paper, Ausinfo, Canberra, August 2003, 85 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy, National Drug Strategy: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' Complementary Action Plan 2003-2006: Action Plan, Ausinfo, Canberra, August 2003, 45 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy, National Drug Strategy: Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area Complementary Action Plan 2003-2006: Torres Strait Islander Supplement, Ausinfo, Canberra, August 2003, 43 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy, The National Drug Strategy: Australia's Integrated Framework 2004-2009, Ausinfo, Canberra, May 2004, 32 pp. (Also available at http://www.nationaldrugstrategy.gov.au/pdf/framework0409.pdf) [ Details... ]
  • Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy, National Drug Strategy: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' Complementary Action Plan 2003-2009: Action Plan, Department of Health and Ageing, 2006, 45 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy, National Drug Strategy: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' Complementary Action Plan 2003-2009: Background Paper, Department of Health and Ageing, 2006. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy, National Drug Strategy: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' Complementary Action Plan 2003-2009: Summary, Department of Health and Ageing, 2006, 8 pp. (Also available at http://www.nationaldrugstrategy.gov.au/internet/drugstrategy/publishing.nsf /Content545C92F95DF8C76ACA257162000DA780$Fileindigenous-summary.pdf) [ Details... ]
  • Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy, National Drug Strategy: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' Complementary Action Plan 2003-2009: Glossary, Department of Health and Ageing, 2006, 17 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy, National Drug Strategy: Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area Complementary Action Plan 2003-2009: Torres Strait Islander Supplement, Department of Health and Ageing, 2006, 43 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy, National Drug Strategy: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' Complementary Action Plan 2003-2006: Summary, MCDS, Canberra, n/d, 8 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Out of the Margin: Harm Reduction and HIV Prevention, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, November 2007, 48 pp. (Also available at http://www.minbuza.nl/binaries/en-pdf /out-of-the-margin---harm-reductioin-and-hiv-preven.pdf) [ Details... ]
  • Ministry of Health, Government of China, Guanyu zai Geji Jibing Yufang Kongzhi Zhongxin (Weisheng Fangyizhan) Jianli Gaowei Renquan Ganyu Gongzuodui de Tongzhi (Circular on Establishing Intervention Task Force for HIV High Risk Population in Centres for Disease Control or Epidemic Prevention Centres at All Levels of Government), Ministry of Health, Government of China, 2004. (Also available at http://www.moh.gov.cn/public /open.aspx?n_id=8581&seq=%E6%8C%89%E7%B1%BB%E7%B4%A2%E5%BC%95) [ Details... ]
  • Ministry of Health, Ministry of Public Security, State Drug Administration, Government of China, Hailuoyin Chengyinzhe Shequ Yaowu Weichi Zhiliao Shidian Gongzuo Zanxing Fangan (Interim Work Plan for Pilot Project of Medicinal Treatment of Heroin Addicts in the Community), 2003. (Also available at http://www.chinaaids.cn/worknet/download/2005/0308.doc) [ Details... ]
  • National Center For AIDS and STD Control, Nepal's National HIV/AIDS Strategy, Final Draft, Ministry of Health, Government of the Kingdom of Nepal, July 19 2002, 48 pp. (Also available at http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/pdf/countries/nepal2.pdf) [ Details... ]
  • O'Gorman, Patrick & Paul Hardacre, Documentation of Best Practices and Needs Assessment of Service Providers in South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Countries, Final Report, AHRN - Asian Harm Reduction Network, Chiang Mai, December 2004, 245 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • Open Society Institute, Protecting the Human Rights of Injecting Drug Users: The Impact of HIV and AIDS, Open Society Institute - International Harm Reduction Development program, February 2005, 32 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • POLICY Project, The Socioeconomic Impact of HIV/AIDS in the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, POLICY Project, June 2003, 43 pp. (Also available at http://www.policyproject.com/pubs/countryreports/VIET_SEI.pdf) [ Details... ]
  • Queensland Health, Extract from Infection Control Guidelines: Guidelines for Management of Occupational and Non-Occupational Exposures to Blood and Body Fluids, Queensland Health, November 2001, 28 pp. (Also available at http://www.health.qld.gov.au/infectioncontrol/documents/pdf/APPENDIX%20P3.pdf) [ Details... ]
  • Regional Task Force on Drug Use and HIV Vulnerability, Preventing HIV/AIDS Among Drug Users: Case studies from Asia, UNAIDS - The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS; UNODC - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; AHRN - Asian Harm Reduction Network, 2003, 87 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • Reid, G. & the Asian Harm Reduction Network (AHRN), The Hidden Epidemic: A Situation Assessment of Drug Use in South East and East Asia in the Context of HIV Vulnerability, AHRN, February 1998. (Also available at http://www.chr.asn.au/resources/libraryservices/docdownload/hiddenepidemic /list#309) [ Details... ]
  • Reid, G; and Costigan, G., Revisiting 'the Hidden Epidemic': a situation assessment of drug use in Asia in the context of HIV/AIDS, The Centre for Harm Reduction, The Burnet Institute, The Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research & Public Health, Fairfield, January 2002. (Also available at http://www.chr.asn.au/resources/libraryservices/docdownload/revisiting/list) [ Details... ]
  • Scalway, Thomas, Young Men and HIV: Culture, Poverty and Sexual Risk, UNAIDS - Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and The Panos Institute, Geneva, July 2001, 51 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • Success Works Pty Ltd, Evaluation of the National Drug Strategic Framework, Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing & Intergovernmental Committee on Drugs, Department of Health and Ageing, June 2003, 121 pp. (Also available at http://www.nationaldrugstrategy.gov.au/pdf/ndsf_eval.pdf) [ Details... ]
  • Task Force on Drug Use and HIV Vulnerability, Drug Use and HIV Vulnerability: Policy Research Study in Asia, UNAIDS Asia Pacific Intercountry Team, Bangkok, October 2000, 238 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • The Centre for Harm Reduction, Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research and Asian Harm Reduction Network, The Manual for Reducing Drug Related Harm in Asia, Second edn, Edited by Nick Crofts; Lead Writer: Genevieve Costigan, The Centre for Harm Reduction, 2003, 370 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • Tripathy, Prof Sriram Prasad, Dr Ying Ru J. Lo, and Dr. Jai. P. Narain, Regional Strategic Plan on HIV/TB, WHO Project: ICP HIV 001, ICP TUB 001, World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, October 2003, 69 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • UNAIDS - Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS; AHRN - Asian Harm Reduction Network, The Asian Harm Reduction Network: Supporting Responses to HIV and Injecting Drug Use in Asia, UNAIDS Best Practice Collection - Case Study, UNAIDS/01.28E, UNAIDS - Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Geneva, May 2001, 48 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • UNAIDS - The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Drug Use and HIV/AIDS: UNAIDS statement presented at the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs, UNAIDS Best Practice Collection, UNAIDS 99.1E, UNAIDS, Geneva, 1999, 12 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • UNAIDS - The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS; PNAC - Philippines National AIDS Council, Country Profile: HIV/AIDS/STD situation in the Philippines and the national response, UNAIDS, August 1998. [ Details... ]
  • United Nations, Preventing the Transmission of HIV Among Drug Users, Annex to the Report of 8th Session of ACC Subcommittee on Drug Control, A position paper of the United Nations System, UNAIDS - The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, September 2000. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • United Nations General Assembly, Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS: "Global Crisis - Global Action", Resolution adopted (27 June 2001) by the General Assembly, A/RES/S-26/2, United Nations, 2 August 2001, 15 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • WHO - World Health Organization, World Health Report 2004 - Changing History, World Health Organization, Geneva, 2004, xvii, 170 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • WHO - World Health Organization, UNAIDS - The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Advocacy Guide: HIV/AIDS Prevention Among Injecting Drug Users, World Health Organization, Geneva, 2004, 120 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • Wolfe, Daniel & Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, Illicit Drug Policies and the Global HIV Epidemic: Effects of UN and National Government Approaches, Open Society Institute - International Harm Reduction Development Program, New York, 2004. [ PDF File | Details... ]
  • World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia; World Health Organization Western Pacific Regional Office, Biregional Strategy for Harm Reduction 2005-2009: HIV and Injecting Drug Use, World Health Organization. (Also available at http://w3.whosea.org/LinkFiles/Publications_BiregionalStrategicPlan.pdf) [ Details... ]

Created: 10 August 2004, Last modified: 19 February 2007