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Rapid scale up of harm reduction in China
Sheena G. Sullivan,Zunyou Wu +1 more
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The introduction of harm reduction has been a massive turn-around in thinking by the government, particularly law enforcement agencies, and achieving this has required considerable cooperation and understanding between the Ministries of Health, Public Security, and Justice, and the Food and Drug Administration.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Drug Policy.The article was published on 2007-03-01. It has received 159 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Harm reduction & Outreach.read more
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HIV prevalence in China: integration of surveillance data and a systematic review.
Lei Zhang,Lei Zhang,Eric P F Chow,Jun Jing,Xun Zhuang,Xiaoshan Li,Meiqi He,Huamin Sun,Xiaoyan Li,Marelize Gorgens,David Wilson,Lan Wang,Wei Guo,Dongming Li,Yan Cui,Lu Wang,Ning Wang,Zunyou Wu,David P Wilson +18 more
TL;DR: HIV epidemics among injecting drug users are decreasing in all regions outside southwest China and have stabilised at a high level in northwest China, and strong associations between HIV prevalence among at-risk populations in each province are recorded, supporting the existence of overlap in risk behaviours and mixing among these populations.
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Drugs as instruments: A new framework for non-addictive psychoactive drug use
TL;DR: It is argued that drug instrumentalization behavior may provide a functional adaptation to modern environments based on a historical selection for learning mechanisms that allow the dynamic modification of consummatory behavior.
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Scaling up the national methadone maintenance treatment program in China: achievements and challenges
Wenyuan Yin,Yang-Quan Hao,Xinhua Sun,Xiuli Gong,Fang-Fang Li,Jianhua Li,Keming Rou,Sheena G. Sullivan,Changhe Wang,Xiaobin Cao,Wei Luo,Zunyou Wu +11 more
TL;DR: China’s methadone maintenance treatment program was initiated in 2004 as a small pilot project in just eight sites and has since expanded into a nationwide program encompassing more than 680 clinics covering 27 provinces and serving some 242 000 heroin users by the end of 2009.
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The effectiveness of compulsory drug treatment: A systematic review
Dan Werb,Dan Werb,Adeeba Kamarulzaman,Meredith C. Meacham,Claudia Rafful,Benedikt Fischer,Steffanie A. Strathdee,Evan Wood,Evan Wood +8 more
TL;DR: There is limited scientific literature evaluating compulsory drug treatment and evidence does not, on the whole, suggest improved outcomes related to compulsory treatment approaches, with some studies suggesting potential harms.
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Systematic review of HIV and HCV infection among drug users in China
Yanping Bao,Liu Zm +1 more
TL;DR: Based on the high prevalence of HIV and HCV among drug users, scaling-up harm reduction was required from ‘heroin trafficking areas’ to other areas in China.
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Overland heroin trafficking routes and HIV-1 spread in south and south-east Asia.
TL;DR: Overland heroin export routes have been associated with dual epidemics of injecting drug use and HIV infection in three Asian countries and along four routes, indicating that single country narcotics and HIV programs are unlikely to succeed unless the regional narcotic-based economy is addressed.
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A meta-analytic review of HIV behavioral interventions for reducing sexual risk behavior of men who have sex with men.
Theodore M. Hammett,Patrick Johnston,Ryan Kling,Wei Liu,Doan Ngu,Nguyen Duy Tung,Kieu Thanh Binh,Ha Viet Dong,Tran Vu Hoang,Ly Kieu Van,Meng Donghua,Yi Chen,Don C. Des Jarlais +12 more
TL;DR: To the extent that proven HIV prevention interventions for MSM can be successfully replicated in community settings and adapted and tailored to different situations, the effectiveness of current HIV prevention efforts can be increased.
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High prevalence of syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases among sex workers in China: potential for fast spread of HIV.
Anneke van den Hoek,Fu Yuliang,Nicole H. T. M. Dukers,Chen Zhiheng,Feng Jiangting,Zhang Lina,Zhang Xiuxing +6 more
TL;DR: STD care and prevention programmes for sex workers outside detention are urgently needed, and appear to be feasible in China, given the high prevalence of STD.
2005 update on the HIV / AIDS epidemic and response in China.
TL;DR: Effective measures have been launched in each key area of HIV/AIDS prevention treatment and care work and the environment for comprehensive work in these areas has improved considerably.