tailieunhanh - báo cáo khoa học: " Designing an experimental HIV/HCV intervention to promote the safe re-use of drug preparation materials by injection drug users in Puerto Rico"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Designing an experimental HIV/HCV intervention to promote the safe re-use of drug preparation materials by injection drug users in Puerto Rico | Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Brief report Open Access Designing an experimental HIV HCV intervention to promote the safe re-use of drug preparation materials by injection drug users in Puerto Rico H Ann Finlinson Héctor M Colón Juan Negrón and Rafaela R Robles Address Center for Addiction Studies School of Medicine Universidad Central del Caribe PO Box 60327 Bayamón 00960-6032 Puerto Rico Email H Ann Finlinson - afinlin@ Héctor M Colón - HColon@ Juan Negrón - jnegron@ Rafaela R Robles - rrobles@ Corresponding author Published 28 April 2008 Received 29 September 2007 Accepted 28 April 2008 Harm Reduction Journal 2008 5 14 doi 1477-7517-5-14 This article is available from http content 5 1 14 2008 Finlinson 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 Injection drug users IDUs in San Juan Puerto Rico are characterized by high rates of daily injecting injection of shared drugs re-use of injection syringes and use of shooting galleries. They lack adequate access to new injection syringes and drug preparation equipment and experience elevated rates of HIV and HCV infection. Between April and August 2006 researchers and active IDUs collaborated in the development of an experimental HIV HCV intervention aimed at identifying drug preparation items and practices that will enable IDUs to make drug solutions without potentially contaminated injection syringes contacting materials used to prepare drugs. The collaboration involved discussing and testing a variety of drug preparation items and practices in office and community settings. The process was repeated until concerns that had been raised were resolved and a tentative .