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HIV and HCV Rapid Testing
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My 1st 48 hours out - continuity of care (note: project sections under development!)
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Prisoners are the most neglected key population group in AIDS response. The UNODC HIV programme helps countries achieve universal access to comprehensive prevention, treatment & care services for people in prisons. bit.lyRead More
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Opioid agonist therapy drastically reduces the risk of mortality after release from prison. Providers, however, reported that some patients prefer to cease treatment prior to release back into the community. https:Read More
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Deaths from synthetic opioids, natural and semi-synthetic opioids, and heroin totalled 49 068 in 2017 in the USA, with the sharpest increase occurring in fatal overdose related to oxycodone, fentanyl, and fentanyl analogues. In Europe, five fentanyl derivatives were identified…Read More
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Research showing that users are more susceptible to overdoses in unfamiliar places is one more argument for safe-injection sites in jails. montrealgazette.comRead More
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Sexual contacts are an undeniable fact among prisoners around the world. However, policy makers and prison governors as well as medical services deny the existence of same-sex-activities in prisons. Homophobia is a global concept of denial of human variety of…Read More
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This comics was produced in the framework of the EU co-funded project “My first 48 hours out” – comprehensive approaches to pre and post prison release interventions for drug users in the criminal justice system”, implemented by the University of…Read More
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4th European Harm Reduction Conference will be in Bucharest, Romania, 21.11.2018 to 23.11.2018 Harm Reduction is an acknowledged part of drug policy in almost all countries in Europe due to overwhelming evidence that it is an effective measure to protect…Read More
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People in prison experience a higher burden of communicable diseases such as hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HCV) and HIV often linked to a history of injecting drug use. In addition, incarceration can result in a higher risk of transmission…Read More
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