tailieunhanh - báo cáo khoa học: " The perspectives of injection drug users regarding safer injecting education delivered through a supervised injecting facility"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: The perspectives of injection drug users regarding safer injecting education delivered through a supervised injecting facility | Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Research The perspectives of injection drug users regarding safer injecting education delivered through a supervised injecting facility Danya Fast1 Will Small1 Evan Wood1 2 and Thomas Kerr 1 2 Open Access Address British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS St. Paul s Hospital British Columbia Canada and 2Department of Medicine Faculty of Medicine University of British Columbia Canada Email Danya Fast - dfast@ Will Small - wsmall@ Evan Wood - uhri-ew@ Thomas Kerr - uhri-tk@ Corresponding author Published 29 October 2008 Received II July 2008 I lozil A-1-1 -rr I 7 r - - Accepted 29 October 2008 Harm Reduction Journal 2008 5 32 doi 1477-7517-5-32 This article is available from http content 5 1 32 2008 Fast et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Unsafe injection practices are prevalent among injection drug users IDU and have resulted in numerous forms of drug-related harm including HIV HCV transmission and other bacterial and viral infections. North America s first supervised injection facility SIF was established in Vancouver in order to address injection-related harms among IDU. This study sought to examine injection drug users experiences receiving safer injecting education in the context of a SIF. Methods Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with 50 individuals recruited from a cohort of SIF users known as the Scientific Evaluation of Supervised Injection SEOSI cohort. Audio recorded interviews elicited IDU perspectives regarding the provision of safer injecting education within the context of a SIF. .