Harm Reduction Services to Prevent and Treat Infectious Diseases ...

IDEA Exchange | Brandeis Opioid Resource Connector

One-to-one needle exchange · Naloxone distribution · Harm reduction and safe injection kits · HIV and Hepatitis C screening and linkage to treatment · Wound care ...

Harm Reduction - Maryland Addiction Consultation Service (MACS)

Infectious Disease Prevention. There is evidence of efforts to reduce ... phernalia distribution, referrals to substance abuse treatment, infectious disease.

Syringe Services Programs' Role in Ending the HIV Epidemic in the ...

Empirical and model-based evidence consistently shows that syringe services programs have the highest impact in HIV prevention when combined with access to ...

The Frontier of Harm Reduction: Expanding Services for Rural ...

In response to rising rates of overdose death and injection-related disease, rural organizers across the country are testing innovative harm ...

Harm Reduction Strategies Through the Lens of Selective and ...

HARM REDUCTION and Syringe Services. Programs. ▫ Most effective way to prevent infectious disease transmission for PWIDs. ▫ Do not increase drug use or crime.

Syringe Service Programs – A Critical Public Health Intervention

This July 2019 webinar examines syringe services programs (SSPs), which are an important community-based prevention ... treatment services for

Two SAMHSA Minority AIDS Initiative Funding Opportunities ...

... Infectious Disease Services in Substance Use Disorder Prevention and Treatment ... infectious disease, and harm reduction services. This portable ...

Link Between Harm Reduction and Hep C | Connect to Cure

Syringe services programs provide clean needles to people who use drugs. This significantly reduces the risk of hepatitis C transmission and ...

Colocating Syringe Services, COVID-19 Vaccination, And Infectious ...

This model of colocation of services could prevent further disease transmission and ensure ... Changes in opioid treatment programs and harm reduction pro- vider ...

HIV/STBBI Prevention and Control

NCCID's harm reduction work responds to the recognized need for harm reduction policies and services by facilitating the exchange of knowledge between ...

Identifying Safety-Net Resources at Health Centers to Prevent ...

the major challenges that CHCs face in preventing and treating infectious diseases ... previously prohibited harm reduction efforts, such as syringe service ...

Harm reduction and hepatitis C - CATIE.ca

Harm reduction programs are also supported by evidence and proven to reduce drug-related harms, including infectious disease transmission and overdose deaths.

Harm Reduction Services - Clear Impact

Connect individuals to overdose education, counseling, and referral to treatment for infectious diseases and substance use disorders. · Distribute opioid ...

AEP: Overdose reversal and other forms of harm reduction

Other harm reduction approaches aim to reduce the adverse health, social and economic outcomes of addiction, including death, homelessness and ...

Syringe Services Program | Clermont County Public Health

The Bloodborne Infectious Disease Prevention Program (syringe services) offers a comprehensive approach to harm reduction that includes a one-for-one ...

Drug User Health Hubs - New York State Department of Health

Drug User Health Hubs operate within a harm reduction framework of prevention with a special emphasis on preventing and responding to opioid overdose. Although ...

Making Sense of Harm Reduction: An Analysis of the Impact of ...

There are three primary goals for these programs: first, to reduce infectious disease transmission; second, to reduce the volume of needles ...

Harm Reduction - Policy-Driven Behavioral Health Initiatives

Like Syringe Service Programs, Needle Exchange Programs (NEP) supply clean needles to drug users in exchange for used ones, safely destroying ...

Unitaid makes US$31 million investment in harm reduction efforts to ...

Unitaid's funding will support the integration of hepatitis C testing and treatment within harm reduction programs and trial the use of two ...

The Case for Supervised Injection Sites in the United States - AAFP

Overall, supervised injection sites reduce overdose deaths, infectious diseases, and public nuisance crimes. Patients who have opioid use disorder deserve ...