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  FULL-TEXT  REPORT
 Prison needle exchange lessons from a comprehensive review of international evidence
and experience
Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
 April 30, 2006
Internet Report

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Estimated drug overdose deaths averted by North America's first medically-supervised safer injection facility.
Milloy MJ, Kerr T, Tyndall M, et al 
PLoS ONE. 2008 Oct 7;3(10):e3351.
 Paper
 
Condom use among injection drug users accessing a supervised injecting facility.
Marshall BD, Wood E, Zhang R, et al 
Sex Transm Infect. 2008 Sep 23.
Abstract
 
Estimating the size and dynamics of an injecting drug user population and implications for health service
coverage: comparison of indirect prevalence estimation methods.
Kimber J, Hickman M, Degenhardt L, et al  
Addiction. 2008 Jul 14.
 Abstract
 
A WEEK-IN-REVIEW FEATURED REPORT
FULL TEXT PDF ARTICLE
Police and public health partnerships: Evidence from the evaluation of Vancouver's supervised injection facility.
Debeck K, Wood E, Zhang R,et al   
Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy. 2008 May 7;3(1):11
Paper
 
Nurse-delivered safer injection education among a cohort of injection drug users: Evidence from
the evaluation of Vancouver's supervised injection facility.
Wood RA, Wood E, Lai C,, et al 
Int J Drug Policy. 2008 Mar 24
Abstract
 
The role of safer injection facilities in the response to HIV/AIDS among injection drug users.
Kerr T, Kimber J, Debeck K, Wood E.
Curr HIV/AIDS Rep. 2007 Dec;4(4):158-64
 Abstract
 
Hepatitis C meanings and preventive strategies among street-involved young injection
drug users in Montréal.
 Roy E, Nonn E, Haley N, Cox J  
Int J Drug Policy. 2007 Oct;18(5):397-405.
 Abstract
 
Reduction in Injection-Related HIV Risk After 6 Months in a Low-Threshold Methadone
Treatment Program.
Millson P, Challacombe L, Villeneuve PJ, et al
AIDS Educ Prev. 2007 Apr;19(2):124-136.
 Abstract
 
Frequent needle exchange use and HIV incidence in Vancouver, Canada.
Wood E, Lloyd-Smith E, Li K, et al  
Am J Med. 2007 Feb;120(2):172-9.
 Abstract
 
A WEEK-IN-REVIEW FEATURED REPORT
FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Summary of findings from the evaluation of a pilot medically supervised safer injecting
facility
Wood E, Tyndall MW, J Montaner JS, Kerr T
CMAJ 2006;175 1399-1404
 Paper
 
Safer injection facility use and syringe sharing in injection drug users.
Kerr T, Tyndall M, Li K, Montaner J, Wood E.   
Lancet. 2005 Jul 23-29;366(9482):316-
 Abstract

Rationale for evaluating North America's first medically supervised safer-injecting facility.
Wood E, Kerr T, Montaner JS, Strathdee SA, 
Lancet Infect Dis. 2004 May 1;4(5):301-6.
 Abstract

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
 Past infection with hepatitis A virus among Vancouver street youth, injection drug users
and men who have sex with men: implications for vaccination programs.
Ochnio JJ, Patrick D, Ho M
CMAJ 2001 Aug 7;165(3):293-7
 Paper

          Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters

 
POWERPOINT POSTER PRESENTATION
A public health and human rights imperative: the case for prison needle and syringe programs
SKH Chu
(XVII International AIDS Conference)
 Poster Presentation
 
Beyond needles: the scientific evidence to scale-up harm reduction for injection drug
users (IDUs) by distributing additional injection-related equipment
Leonard L.E., Medd E., Strike C., et al
 (XVI International AIDS Conference)
 Abstract
 
Urgent need for gender-specific harm reduction programs and services: a gender analysis
of equipment sharing among women and men IDUs in Ontario, Canada
 L. Leonard, A. Reynolds, E. DeRubeis, A. Germain
 (XVII International AIDS Conference)
 Abstract

Risk conditions impact individual HIV prevention practices of Ottawa injection drug
users (IDUs)
L E Leonard, C Navarro, N Birkett, R S Remis
(15IAC)
 Abstract
 

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