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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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  Towards universal access: scaling up priority HIV/AIDS interventions in the health sector

  World Health Organization, 2007

  This progress report from the World Health Organisation (WHO) shows a steady increase in the global levels of access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) for people living with HIV. However, it shows less improvement in other priority areas of HIV treatment. The coverage rate for access to prophylactic ART by pregnant women, to prevent mother to child transmission of the virus, continues to be low.
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  Saving lives by reducing harm: HIV prevention and treatment for injecting drug users

  Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2006

  This report from the International Harm Reduction Development Programme at the Open Society Institute argues that HIV infection is spreading rapidly among intravenous drug users (IDU) because of a lack of effective measures to reduce drug consumption.
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  Closed to reason: the International Narcotics Control Board and HIV/AIDS

  Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2007

  This report from the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and the Open Society Institute argues that the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has become an obstacle to effective programmes to treat HIV and chemical dependence.
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  Consortium of Thai Training Institutes for STDs and AIDS (COTTISA)

  The Consortium of Thai Training Institutes for STDs and AIDS (COTTISA) holds meetings, lectures, seminars, symposia, and conferences for the promotion of knowledge in STDs and AIDS, sexual health and
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  Vulnerability to HIV infection among sex worker and non-sex worker female injecting drug users in Dhaka, Bangladesh: evidence from the baseline survey of a cohort study

  Harm Reduction Journal, 2007

  This study, published in the Journal of Harm Reduction, examines the risks and vulnerability to HIV of female injecting drug users (IDU) in Bangladesh. The study looked at 130 female IDUs, of which 82 were sex workers, in three cities in the Dhaka region. Findings show that none had HIV but more sex workers had lifetime syphilis than non-sex workers.
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  Harm reduction: tackling drug use and HIV in the developing world

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This statement, from the government of the United Kingdom, outlines its position on harm reduction. The effectiveness of harm reduction in preventing HIV infection among injecting drug users (IDUs), especially needle and syringe access and disposal programmes, has been proven in many countries.
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  World Drug Report 2006

  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2006

  This report, from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, provides an overview of illicit drug trends internationally. Volume One analyses the trends of how drugs are produced, trafficked and used in the world and includes a special thematic chapter on cannabis. Volume 2 provides detailed statistics.
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  Facing the future: the challenge for national and international drug policy

  Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme, 2005

  This report, from the Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme, reviews the current challenges to effective drug policy.
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  Evidence for action: special edition of the International Journal of Drug Policy

  International Journal of Drug Policy, 2005

  This special edition of the International Journal of Drug Policy, produced in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), features a range of articles on the evidence base for HIV treatment, prevention and care among injecting drug users (IDUs).
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  HIV/AIDS in the transitional countries of eastern Europe and central Asia

  Clinical Medicine, 2005

  This article, from Clinical Medicine, examines how changing economic and social environments have contributed to AIDS epidemics in the transitional countries of eastern Europe and central Asia. The authors outline how AIDS became a major threat to health, economic stability and human development during the 1990s.

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