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STUDY 2019 HTM file
Syringe disposal among people who inject drugs before and after the implementation of a syringe services program
Did Florida’s first needle exchange programme result in fewer items of used injecting equipment being left in public places? The answer comes from a walkthrough of Miami neighbourhoods and interviews with people who inject drugs before and after the programme opened its doors.
REVIEW 2003 PDF file 1150Kb
Hepatitis C and needle exchange part 1: The dimensions of the challenge
First part of the series established that hepatitis C has already infected a substantial minority of British injectors and is spreading rapidly due to continued risk behaviour allied with the robustness, infectivity and prevalence of the virus.
REVIEW 2003 PDF file 1826Kb
Hepatitis C and needle exchange part 2: case studies
Six case studies show how the complex balance of exchange services can be disrupted, leaving hepatitis C and HIV spreading rapidly. Common themes are resource starvation, local hostility, counterproductive restrictions and a non-interventionist ethic. Includes influential early studies dating from 1992.
REVIEW 2004 PDF file 784Kb
Hepatitis C and needle exchange part 3: the British record
Reveals the paucity of evidence that exchanges in Britain have directly reduced risk behaviour or infection spread, and the hidden flaw in the seminal pilot study. Lack of real impact is probably less the problem than lack of real evidence of impact.
REVIEW 2004 PDF file 1222Kb
Hepatitis C and needle exchange part 4: the active ingredients
Final part of the series pulls together the threads in the form of the limitations which threaten viral control and the practice ingredients which hold promise for the future. A revitalised agenda commensurate with the challenge of hepatitis C.
SERIES OF ARTICLES 2004 PDF file 2750Kb
Hepatitis C and needle exchange
Major series asking what remains a key question - can needle exchanges step up to the challenge of the highly transmissible hepatitis C virus? Features city case studies and forensic examination of the British record.
OFFCUT 2004 PDF file 157Kb
Study quantifies how much more it will take to control hepatitis C than HIV
Australian study calculates that hepatitis C will only be adequately controlled by reducing the number of sharing partners or the risk from sharing to a fraction of the level at which HIV is controlled.
REVIEW ABSTRACT 2009 HTM file
The primary prevention of hepatitis C among injecting drug users
To curb hepatitis C, UK government advisers call for substantial expansion of needle exchange provision so that a new set of equipment is available for every injection and for methadone programmes to provide access to injecting equipment and vice versa.
STUDY 2005 PDF file 154Kb
Hepatitis C therapy cost-effective for injectors
Two new analyses agree that despite relapse to drug use and imperfect adherence to a demanding medical regime, anti-viral therapy for hepatitis C infection in drug injectors cost-effectively prolongs and improves life.
OFFCUT 2005 PDF file 151Kb
Hepatitis C is spreading more rapidly than was thought
From the early 2000s in Britain there was clear evidence from research and routine monitoring that drug policy was failing to contain hepatitis C infection among injectors, and worrying signs of a trend upwards in HIV infection.
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