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Searching with a thematic focus on HIV and AIDS transmission, prevention and testing, HIV and AIDS, Key populations, HIV and AIDS vulnerable groups, Injecting drug users

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  HIV and AIDS in places of detention: a toolkit for policymakers, programme managers, prison officers and health care providers in prison settings

  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2008

  In many countries, the groups most vulnerable to HIV are also groups at increased risk of criminalisation and incarceration, as many of the same social and economic conditions that increase vulnerability to HIV also increase vulnerability to imprisonment.
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  HIV in prison in low-income and middle-income countries

  The Lancet, 2007

  Prisons have the classic characteristics that can increase the risk of HIV transmission. High prevalence of HIV infection and the over-representation of injecting drug users (IDUs) in prisons combined with HIV risk behaviour create a crucial public health issue for correctional institutions and, at a broader level, the communities in which they are situated.
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  Effectiveness of interventions to address HIV in prisons

  World Health Organization, 2007

  The rates of HIV infection among prisoners in many countries are significantly higher than those in the general population.
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  HIV in Pakistan: preventing a future epidemic in most-at-risk groups

  London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2009

  Very low levels of HIV and AIDS awareness and condom use, together with high-risk sexual behaviours in vulnerable groups such as injecting drug-users and sex workers, make Pakistan a potentially high-risk country for HIV spread. Current HIV prevalence is generally low but STI levels are high in some at-risk groups.
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  Preventing HIV/AIDS in young people: a systematic review of the evidence from developing countries

  World Health Organization, 2006

  There is now wide consensus about the main settings through which young people can be reached with HIV/AIDS preventive interventions. These include schools, health services, mass media and through community and outreach programmes targeting the young people who are most at risk of HIV.
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  A framework for monitoring and evaluating HIV prevention programmes for most-at-risk populations

  MEASURE Evaluation, 2007

  Interventions with most-at-risk populations can be as important in generalized epidemics as in low-level and concentrated epidemics. Without effective interventions in sex work and drug injecting networks, high HIV incidence can drive transmission regardless of epidemic stage.
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  Orientation on Harm Reduction - a training course (Participant manual)

  WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, 2007

  This training course has been produced for audiences unfamiliar with harm reduction for injecting drug users. Produced as a participant manual (see Furtherin Information on the right hand side for the Trainer manual) , it provides an introduction to important concepts in HIV prevention for injecting drug users.
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  Orientation on Harm Reduction - a training course (Trainer Manual)

  Regional Office for the Western Pacific, World Health Organisation, 2007

  This training package has been produced for audiences unfamiliar with harm reduction for injecting drug users. Produced as a trainer's manual, it provides an introduction to important concepts in HIV prevention for injecting drug users.
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  Sex, drugs, and HIV/AIDS in China

  The Lancet, 2008

  This report from The Lancet focuses on the spread of HIV in China. Findings show that heterosexual sex has overtaken intravenous drug use as the main route of HIV transmission, with many new cases infected by marriage partners.
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  The overlap between injecting drug use and sex work

  Exchange, 2007

  This article from Exchange argues that women drug users in Asia have a higher risk of HIV infection than their male counterparts. The article draws on research from a range of Asian countries which shows that while the number of women drug users is low, they are disproportionately at risk of HIV infection because many women drug users are also sex workers.

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