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Introduction
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Selection Process
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If You Only Read One Paper...
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Acknowledgements
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Sub- Categories
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Recommended Further Reading
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UN Documents
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Introduction
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This set of documents is intended for people who are involved in trying to reduce the number of new HIV infections among injecting drug users (IDU) or trying to improve the care of IDU already infected with HIV. These documents may be used to improve advocacy for HIV prevention strategies, plan new services, improve or evaluate existing services, carry out research or develop new policy. This collection is intended to benefit policy makers, practitioners, communities and drug users around the world.
We now have nearly 20 years experience in the development and delivery of methods for reducing transmission of HIV among injecting drug users. Substantial evidence now exists for the effectiveness of many of these interventions. We have also learnt a great deal about how to provide these interventions to maximise benefits. However, most of this information is in the English language while the more urgent need is in the non-English speaking world. Until now, there has been no single, readily accessible source of up-to-date key documents about HIV prevention and care for IDUs. IHRA receives numerous requests for such information. In addition, UN agencies have endorsed many of the prevention strategies needed to prevent HIV among injecting drug users by. It is important that such endorsements are more widely known and that information on HIV prevention and care for IDUs is more widely disseminated. After two decades, HIV prevention is still an urgent set of tasks.
IHRA has selected over 50 major documents covering a range of almost 20 topics related to HIV prevention and care for IDUs, along with key documents from UN organisations.
Please note: This collection HIV prevention documents is periodically reviewed. Please contact IHRA with your views and feedback.
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Selection Process
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Preference was given to documents that are of practical use to advocates, policy makers, programme managers and harm reduction practitioners. This was not an attempt to compile a scientific evidence base (as has been done by the WHO in the International Journal of Drug Policy, 16, Supplement 1, 2005). In addition, the copyright status of some papers was an important consideration as unfortunately only those papers in the public domain could be selected.
An International Reference Panel of experts was set up to ensure that the selected documents were of a high standard and reflected a global rather than a national perspective. There are still many more papers and documents from the industrialised world than developing or transitional countries. Publications were preferred if they were: recent; brief; readable; accredited by an international organisation; published as a paper in a high impact factor journal and scientifically rigorous (where relevant); and focused on and relevant to developing or transitional nations. In addition, consideration was given to avoid long and complex documents, because the collection may, at a later date, be translated.
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If You Only Read One Paper...
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Hunt, N (2003). A review of the evidence-base for harm reduction approaches to drug use. London: Report commissioned by Forward Thinking on Drugs – A Release Initiative.
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Acknowledgements
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International Reference Panel
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- Dave Burrows
- Rich Needle
- Joanne Csete
- Swarup Sarkar
- Don Des Jarlais
- Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch
- Fabio Mesquita
- Mukta Sharma
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Other people who helped
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- Nicky Bath
- Gerry Stimson
- Eva Congreve
- Jimmy Dorabjee
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And those who actually worked on the project
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- Kate Dolan
- Alex Wodak
- Lisa Bernstein
- Benjamin Phillips
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Sub-Categories
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To make the 50-or-so documents easier to navigate and locate, this collection has been divided into various sub-categories which each define a certain area of research or interest.
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Click here to view Sub-Categories
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Recommended Further Reading
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As we can only provide access to documents that we have copyright permission for, or documents that are in the public domain, there are many that we were unable to add to this list, even though they are relevant.
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Click here to view the list of these documents
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UN Documents
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To compliment the documents and resources in this collection, this section provides extracts of some key statements from UN documents and literature that relate to this topic.
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Click here to view these UN document extracts
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