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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777867403321

Titolo

Preventing HIV infection among injecting drug users in high risk countries [[electronic resource] ] : an assessment of the evidence / / Committee on the Prevention of HIV Infection among Injecting Drug Users in High-Risk Countries, Board on Global Health, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2007

ISBN

0-309-18015-5

1-280-74245-3

9786610742455

0-309-66345-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Disciplina

614.5

Soggetti

HIV infections - Prevention

AIDS (Disease)

Needle exchange programs

Intravenous drug abuse

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Reviewers""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Acronyms and Abbreviations""; ""Summary""; ""Introduction""; ""1 HIV/AIDS in Injecting Drug Users""; ""2 Treatment for Drug Dependence""; ""3 Sterile Needle and Syringe Access, and Outreach and Education""; ""4 Taking Action""; ""Appendixes""; ""Appendix A Agenda for Information-Gathering Meeting, Geneva, December 2005""; ""Appendix B Literature Search Strategies""; ""Appendix C Country Case Examples""

""Appendix D Tables Summarizing the Evidence on Multi-Component HIV Prevention Programs That Include Needle and Syringe Exchange (NSE)""""Appendix E Additional Thoughts on a Community Randomized Trial of Multi-Component HIV Prevention Programs""; ""Appendix F Biographies""