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Secondary syringe exchange as a model for HIV prevention programs in the Russian Federation

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dc.contributor.author Irwin K.
dc.contributor.author Karchevsky E.
dc.contributor.author Heimer R.
dc.contributor.author Badrieva L.
dc.date.accessioned 2018-09-18T20:19:32Z
dc.date.available 2018-09-18T20:19:32Z
dc.date.issued 2006
dc.identifier.issn 1082-6084
dc.identifier.uri https://dspace.kpfu.ru/xmlui/handle/net/138732
dc.description.abstract Effective prevention of syringe-borne transmission of HIV and the hepatitis viruses can be undermined if contact between injection drug users and the staff of prevention programs is impeded by police harassment, limited program resources, and the absence of an open "drug scene." All these are commonplace in the Russian Federation. In response, "Project Renewal," the harm reduction program of the AIDS Prevention and Control Center of the Tatarstan Ministry of Health in Kazan, has created a hybrid syringe exchange program that as its primary focus recruited and trained volunteers to provide secondary syringe exchange. To compensate for operational barriers, the program staff identified private venues and trained responsible individuals to work through their own and related networks of injectors to provide clean syringes, other harm reduction supplies, and educational materials, while facilitating the collection and removal of used and potentially contaminated syringes. Program staff developed a detailed set of tracking instruments to monitor, on a daily and weekly basis, the locations and types of contacts and the dissemination of trainings and materials to ensure that the secondary distribution network reaches its target audience. Data show that these secondary exchange sites have proven more productive than the primary mobile and fixed-site syringe exchanges in Kazan. Beginning in 2001, Project Renewal has trained other harm reduction programs in the Russian Federation to use this model of reaching injectors, identifying and training volunteers, and monitoring results of secondary syringe exchange. Copyright © 2006 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
dc.relation.ispartofseries Substance Use and Misuse
dc.subject Drug scene
dc.subject Harm reduction
dc.subject HIV risk
dc.subject Injection drug use
dc.subject Outreach site host
dc.subject Rapid situation assessment
dc.subject Russia
dc.subject Syringe exchange
dc.title Secondary syringe exchange as a model for HIV prevention programs in the Russian Federation
dc.type Article
dc.relation.ispartofseries-issue 6-7
dc.relation.ispartofseries-volume 41
dc.collection Публикации сотрудников КФУ
dc.relation.startpage 979
dc.source.id SCOPUS10826084-2006-41-67-SID33745728210


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    Коллекция содержит публикации сотрудников Казанского федерального (до 2010 года Казанского государственного) университета, проиндексированные в БД Scopus, начиная с 1970г.

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