Download or read book Drug Addiction and AIDS written by Norbert Loimer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AIDS and drug addiction is a topic of great and growing concern. AIDS first appeared among intravenous drug users in Europe in 1984, three years after the first cases were seen among homosexuals. This epidemic has spread more rapidly among intravenous drug users than in any other risk group. The high rates of HIV-1 seroprevalence among drug users in France, Italy, and Spain account for 85% of the total number of AIDS in intravenous drug users in Europe. It is anticipated that HIV-infected drug users will soon place a heavy burden on both drug treatment facilities and specialized health care units. The HIV-1 epidemic will also cross the former iron curtain. This contribution covers the wide and complex scene of drug problems and addiction as a whole. It gives researchers an opportunity to obtain background information on the spread of HIV and AIDS among intravenous drug users as well as on the clinical and psychological effects of HIV-1 infection and AIDS in Europe. The topics reviewed include surveys of intravenous drug use, HIV prevalence, detoxification, risk reduction, changing health behaviors, evaluating AIDS interventions and the impact of methadone maintenance treatment. This monograph will be of value to all clinicians, researchers, and policy makers who are concerned with the connection between intravenous drug use and AIDS.

Download or read book AIDS Among Drug Users in Europe written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AIDS bei Drogenabhängigen in Europa. Zweite Zusammenfassung.

Download or read book AIDS Among Drug Abusers in Europe written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book AIDS Among Drug Abusers in Europe written by H. Brenner and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Preventing HIV Infection Among Injecting Drug Users in High Risk Countries written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-12-20 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug dependence is a complex, chronic, relapsing condition that is often accompanied by severe health, psychological, economic, legal, and social consequences. Injecting drug users are particularly vulnerable to HIV and other bloodborne infections (such as hepatitis C) as a result of sharing contaminated injecting equipment. All drug-dependent individuals, including injecting drug users (IDUs), may be at increased risk of HIV infection because of high-risk sexual behaviors. There are an estimated 13.2 million injecting drug users (IDUs) world-wide-78 percent of whom live in developing or transitional countries. The sharing of contaminated injecting equipment has become a major driving force of the global AIDS epidemic and is the primary mode of HIV transmission in many countries. In some cases, epidemics initially fueled by the sharing of contaminated injecting equipment are spreading through sexual transmission from IDUs to non-injecting populations, and through perinatal transmission to newborns. Reversing the rise of HIV infections among IDUs has thus become an urgent global public health challenge-one that remains largely unmet. In response to this challenge, the Institute of Medicine convened a public workshop in Geneva in December 2005 to gather information from experts on IDU-driven HIV epidemics in the most affected regions of the world with an emphasis on countries throughout Eastern Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and significant parts of Asia. Experts from other regions also provided information on their experiences in preventing HIV infection among IDUs. This report provides a summary of the workshop discussions. Preventing HIV Infection among Injecting Drug Users in High Risk Countries describes the evidence on the intermediate outcomes of drug-related risk and sex-related risk prior to examining the impact on HIV transmission. This report focuses on programs that are designed to prevent the transmission of HIV among injecting drug users. These programs range from efforts to curtail non-medical drug use to those that encourage reduction in high-risk behavior among drug users. Although the report focuses on HIV prevention for IDUs in high-risk countries, the Committee considered evidence from countries around the world. The findings and recommendations of this report are also applicable to countries where injecting drug use is not the primary driver, but in which injection drug use is nevertheless associated with significant HIV transmission.

Download or read book War on Drugs HIV AIDS and Human Rights written by Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch and published by IDEA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Drug policies are often categorized in terms of public health and safety: governments forbid the voluntary use of certain substances because such use undermines the good of society as a whole. This book aims to position drug policies in another context - the context of human rights. Articles will examine the rights of drug users, with special attention to the right to adequate medical care, which is often denied to intravenous drug users who are suffering from HIV/AIDS. included will be articles that express a contrary position: that intravenous drug users have voluntarily relinquished their rights by engaging in criminal behavior. Particularly controversial are the rights of drug-using mothers whose children are sometimes put into state custody. The book will also examine the conflict between criminal codes and the human right of individual freedom, emphasizing the human rights abuses that often accompany drug policy enforcement. The texts of basic treaties and accords on human rights will be included.

Download or read book AIDS Among Drug Abusers in Europe written by World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Drug Addiction and AIDS written by Norbert Loimer and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Drug Abuse and HIV AIDS written by Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. and published by United Nations, Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention. This book was released on 2001 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is efficiently transmitted by the sharing or use of contaminated needles. This publication is aimed at governmental and non-governmental organizations involved in the planning, coordination and implementation of strategies and programmes for HIV prevention among injecting drug users. It captures the details of a range of practices in order to provide useful lessons and offer references for those working in the field of drug abuse and HIV / AIDS prevention. The first three chapters are dedicated to 20 case studies, which focus on fieldwork, political mobilization and strategy development, and training and networking. The final chapter, which is aimed at policy makers, summarizes overall lessons learned and challenges for the future.

Download or read book AIDS Drugs and Prevention written by Richard Hartnoll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strong international focus with high profile contributors from the UK, US, France, Spain and the Netherlands Lack of material attempting to evaluate critically health promotion and health service responses, particularly with regard to community based interventions among hard to reach populations Richard Hartnoll is Co-ordinator of the European Multi-City Study of Drug Misuse and Priniciple Investigator on the Multi-City Study of Cocaine Use

Download or read book AIDS Among Drug Users in Europe written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book HIV AIDS in Europe written by World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe and published by WHO Regional Office Europe. This book was released on 2006 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of HIV/AIDS in Europe from a broad variety of perspectives: bio-medical, social, cultural, economic and political. The authors are leading experts from across the region and include both the infected and the affected, be they doctors or former drug users, United Nations employees or gay men, public health researchers or community activits. They describe how, from the first documented cases in 1981 to the present era of antiretroviral management, controlling the human inmmunodeficiency virus in Europe has provided elusive.

Download or read book Preventing HIV Transmission written by National Research Council and Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1995-09-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the interface of two major national problems: the epidemic of HIV-AIDS and the widespread use of illegal injection drugs. Should communities have the option of giving drug users sterile needles or bleach for cleaning needs in order to reduce the spread of HIV? Does needle distribution worsen the drug problem, as opponents of such programs argue? Do they reduce the spread of other serious diseases, such as hepatitis? Do they result in more used needles being carelessly discarded in the community? The panel takes a critical look at the available data on needle exchange and bleach distribution programs, reaches conclusions about their efficacy, and offers concrete recommendations for public policy to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS. The book includes current knowledge about the epidemiologies of HIV/AIDS and injection drug use; characteristics of needle exchange and bleach distribution programs and views on those programs from diverse community groups; and a discussion of laws designed to control possession of needles, their impact on needle sharing among injection drug users, and their implications for needle exchange programs.

Download or read book Programme on Prevention of Drug Abuse and Concomitant HIV Transmission in Countries of Central and Eastern Europe written by World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Outreach written by Co-operation Group to Combat Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in Drugs (Pompidou Group) and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Strategy for HIV AIDS Prevention and Control in Drug Users written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Preventing AIDS in Drug Users and Their Sexual Partners written by James L. Sorensen and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1991-08-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AIDS is a growing problem, yet few books address specific interventions for what is now emerging as a second primary at-risk group in the U.S. and Europe--intravenous drug users. To date, this population has been unresponsive to publicized prevention techniques, and the consequences are telling. The number of intravenous drug users diagnosed with AIDS has risen steadily, from slightly over 18% of the 376 cases reported in 1981 to 28.4% of the 43,339 new cases reported in 1990. Further, drug use appears to be the primary link to the heterosexual population: Most women with AIDS have been injection drug users, and almost all babies born with AIDS have a parent with a history of such abuse. Addressing what needs to be done to stem the tide of this "second wave" of the AIDS epidemic, this volume presents research-validated information on how to prevent the spread of HIV infection among drug users and their sexual partners.