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Harm Reduction Coalition Policy Newsletter
Harm Reduction Coalition
February 2009
Newsletter

        Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

Estimating the level of HIV prevention coverage, knowledge and protective behavior among
injecting drug users: what does the 2008 UNGASS reporting round tell us?
Mathers BM, Degenhardt L, Adam P, et al J
 J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2009 Dec;52 Suppl 2:S132-42.
 Abstract

A WEEK-IN-REVIEW-FEATURED REPORT
FULL-TEXT PDF ARTICLE
Harm reduction in hospitals: is it time?
Rachlis B, Kerr T, Montaner JS, Wood E.
Harm Reduct J. 2009 Jul 29;6(1):19
 Paper

A WEEK IN REVIW FEATURED REPORT
FULL-TEXT PDF ARTICLE
 The role of harm reduction in controlling HIV among injecting drug users
 Wodak A, McLeod L 
AIDS Aug 2008
 Paper
 
HIV Prevention for Injecting Drug Users: The First 25 Years and Counting.
Des Jarlais DC, Semaan S
Psychosom Med. 2008 Jun 2.
Abstract 
 
Substitution treatment of injecting opioid users for prevention of HIV infection.
Gowing L, Farrell M, Bornemann R, Sullivan L, Ali R.
Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2008 Apr 16;(2):CD004145.
 Abstract 
 
Development, description, and acceptability of a small-group, behavioral intervention
to prevent HIV and hepatitis C virus Infections among young adult injection drug users.
Purcell DW, Garfein RS, Latka MH, et al
Drug Alcohol Depend. 2007 Apr 25;
Abstract 
 
Hepatitis C virus eradication in intravenous drug users maintained with subcutaneous
naltrexone implants.
Jeffrey GP, Macquillan G, Chua F, et al
Hepatology. 2006 Dec 22;45(1):111-117
Abstract
 
Economic Evaluation of an HIV Prevention Intervention for Seropositive Injection Drug Users.
Tuli K, Sansom S, Purcell DW, Metsch LR, et aL
Public Health Manag Pract. 2005 November/December;11(6):508-51
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FULL-TEXT PDF ARTICLE
 A review of HIV prevention among young injecting drug users: A guide for researchers.
Dolan KA, Niven H. 
Harm Reduct J. 2005 Mar 17;2(1):5
PDF Paper
 
Paying injection drug users to educate and recruit their peers: why participant-driven
interventions are an ethical public health model.
Hughes J J.
Qual Manag Health Care 1999 Summer;7(4):4-12
 Abstract

Syringe/Needle Exchange/Provision
       
           News
 
  FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
US Gag on Needle Exchange Harms U.N. AIDS Efforts Before U.N.
Narcotics Meeting, Groups in 56 Countries Assail U.S. Tactics
Human Rights Watch  
March 03, 2005
News Feature
 

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

Evidence for the effectiveness of sterile injecting equipment provision in
preventing hepatitis C and human immunodeficiency virus transmission
among injecting drug users: a review of reviews.
Palmateer N, Kimber J, Hickman M, et al
Addiction. 2010 Mar 2.
Abstract

Recipient syringe sharing and its relationship to social proximity, perception of risk and
preparedness to share.
Smyth BP, Roche A.
Addict Behav. 2006 Dec 22;
 Abstract
 
Psychiatric Comorbidity Is Associated With Drug Use and HIV Risk in Syringe Exchange
Participants.
Disney E, Kidorf M, Kolodner K, et al
J Nerv Ment Dis. 2006 Aug;194(8):577-583.
 Abstract
 
Do needle syringe programs reduce HIV infection among injecting drug users:
a comprehensive review of the international evidence.
Wodak A, Cooney A.
Subst Use Misuse. 2006;41(6-7):777-813.
Abstract
 
Thinking ethically about needle and syringe programs.
Kleinig J. 
Subst Use Misuse. 2006;41(6-7):815-25.
 Abstract

Model Projections on the Required Coverage of Syringe Distribution to Prevent HIV
Epidemics Among Injecting Drug Users.
Vickerman P, Hickman M, Rhodes T, Watts C.
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2006 Apr 24;
Abstract
Syringe Disposal
       

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

Safe Syringe Disposal is Related to Safe Syringe Access among HIV-positive
Injection Drug Users.
Coffin PO, Latka MH, Latkin C, et al   
AIDS Behav. 2006 Oct 12;
 Abstract
Immunizations/Vaccinations
 
General Reports
 
     Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  Vaccine immunogenicity in injecting drug users: a systematic review.
Baral S, Sherman SG, Millson P, Beyrer C.
Lancet Infect Dis. 2007 Oct;7(10):667-74
 Abstract
 
HAV Vaccination

     Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  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, et al.  
CMAJ 2001 Aug 7;165(3):293-7
 Paper

HBV Vaccination

        Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
A randomized controlled trial of monetary incentives vs. outreach to enhance adherence
to the hepatitis B vaccine series among injection drug users.
Seal KH, Kral AH, Lorvick J, et al 
Drug Alcohol Depend. 2003 Aug 20;71(2):127-31
 Abstract

Results of an enhanced-outreach programme of hepatitis B vaccination in the Netherlands
(1998-2000) among men who have sex with men, hard drug users, sex workers and
heterosexual persons with multiple partners.
van Steenbergen J.
J Hepatol 2002 Oct;37(4):507
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  Hepatitis B vaccination for injection drug users--Pierce County, Washington, 2000  
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2001 May18;50(19):388-90, 399
 Abstract		  
     
  Providing hepatitis B vaccination to injection drug users: referralto health clinics vs
on-site vaccination at a syringe exchange program.
Des Jarlais DC, Fisher DG, Newman JC et al.  
Am J Public Health 2001 Nov;91(11):1791-2
 Abstract		  
     
  Failure to vaccinate current injecting drug users against hepatitis B in England and
Wales.
Lamagni TL, Hope VD, Davison KL, et al.
Commun Dis Public Health 2001 Mar;4(1):71-2
 Abstract		  

HCV Vaccine

        Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Protection against persistence of hepatitis C.
 Mehta SH, Cox A, Hoover DR, et al.
 Lancet 2002 Apr 27;359(9316):1478-83
 Abstract

Influenza

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Influenza vaccination of HIV-1-positive and HIV-1-negative former intravenous
drug users.
Amendola A,  Boschini A, Colzani D, et al.
J Med Virol 2001 Dec;65(4):644-8
 Abstract
Drugs
       
Methadone

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  A WEEK-IN-REVIEW FEATURED REPORT
Methadone Treatment of Injecting Opioid Users for Prevention of HIV Infection.
Gowing LR, Farrell M, Bornemann R, et al
J Gen Intern Med. 2005 Dec 7;
Abstract

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