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  Rapid situation assessment of Malaysia

  Centre for Harm Reduction, Melbourne, 2005

  This situation assessment of Malaysia, produced by the Centre for Harm Reduction, examines drug issues from a public health and public security perspective. It highlights the complexity, challenges and responses of drug use and HIV and AIDS. The assessment documents widespread sharing of needles and syringes.
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  Rapid spread of HIV among injecting drug users in north-eastern states of India

  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 1993

  This paper, from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), reports on a study that examined the prevalence, risk behaviour and HIV status of intravenous drug users (IDUs) in Northern India. The study found that the majority of IDUs in the region were male and between the ages of 15 and 30, although the number of female IDUs is increasing.
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  PLACE in Central Asia: A regional strategy to focus AIDS prevention in Almaty and Karaganda, Kazakhstan; Osh, Kyrgyzstan; Tashkent, Uzbekistan 2002

  MEASURE Evaluation, 2004

  This report from the Center for Study of Public Opinion details the Priorities for Local AIDS Control Efforts (PLACE) protocol that was implemented in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. PLACE identifies specific sites where HIV/AIDS prevention programmes can be most effective.
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  Risky sex, addictions, and communicable diseases in India: implications for health, development, and security

  Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2004

  This paper, produced by the Theoretical Division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, looks at alcohol and drug abuse, as well as risky sexual behaviour - seen as the leading risk factors for HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, other STIs - and how they could potentially impact on India’s national stability and security.
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  HIV in injecting drug users in Asian countries

  British Medical Journal, 2004

  This paper, published by the British Medical Journal, asks why proven strategies to prevent the spread of HIV infection among and from injecting drug users are not being more widely adopted in Asian countries. Injecting drug use continues to proliferate in this region.
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  WHO/UNODC/UNAIDS position paper: substitution maintenance therapy in the management of opioid dependence and HIV/AIDS prevention

  World Health Organization, 2004

  This position paper, produced by the WHO, UNODC, and UNAIDS, is based on a review of scientific evidence of the effects of substitution maintenance therapy (SMT) for the management of opioid dependence and HIV/AIDS prevention. Aimed at policy makers, the paper begins with a joint statement on SMT and establishes the epidemiology, nature and possible treatments of opioid dependence.
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  Breaking down barriers: lessons on providing HIV treatment to injection drug users

  International Harm Reduction Development program, OSI, 2004

  This report, prepared by the International Harm Reduction Development (IHRD) program, is a collection of cases demonstrating that well-designed, supportive programmes, which address the needs of injecting drug users can help all individuals adhere to anti-retroviral therapy (ART) and take advantage of appropriate harm reduction services.
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  AIDS in Asia: face the facts

  Monitoring the AIDS Pandemic Network, 2004

  This report, produced by the Monitoring the AIDS Pandemic (MAP) Network, offers a comprehensive review of the latest HIV/AIDS data in Asia. It examines the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in Asia, and identifies and explores behaviours which have resulted in the highest rates of HIV transmission: commercial sex, drug injecting, male-male sex and combinations of these behaviours.
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  Manual for reducing drug-related harm in Asia

  Centre for Harm Reduction, Melbourne, 2003

  This updated edition of the 1999 manual from The Centre for Harm Reduction provides a comprehensive guide to HIV/AIDS programming for injecting drug users (IDUs) in Asia. Following an overview of the HIV epidemic among IDUs in Asia, the manual details the rationale for harm reduction, and examines how this can be balanced and integrated with supply and demand reduction approaches.
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  HIV/AIDS and drug misuse in Russia: harm reduction programmes and the Russian legal system

  International Family Health, UK, 2003

  This International Family Health paper examines how Russian law hinders the development of Harm Reduction programmes to tackle HIV/AIDS in the Russian Federation. Although there are currently around 70 harm reduction programmes in Russia, none of these receive official support due to the belief that Russian law actually prohibits these programmes.

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