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Can Low Volume Syringes Help End HIV and HCV Transmission Among People Who Use Drugs?
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- Category: HIV Prevention
- Published on Thursday, 24 January 2013 00:00
- Written by Cyd Nova
Syringes that have a lower "dead space" volume retain less fluid that can harbor HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV), and switching to this type could help reduce viral transmission among injection drug users, according to an article in the January 2013 issue of International Journal of Drug Policy.
Naloxone Is Cost-effective Way to Prevent Heroin Overdose Deaths
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- Category: Injection Drug Users
- Published on Thursday, 03 January 2013 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
Distributing naloxone more widely to heroin users would reduce the number of deaths due to overdose and would be a cost-effective intervention, according to a mathematical model described in the January 1, 2013,Annals of Internal Medicine. Providing naloxone to prescription opiate users would prevent even more deaths.
Methadone Use Reduces Risk of HIV Infection among Injection Drug Users
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- Category: HIV Prevention
- Published on Wednesday, 10 October 2012 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
Methadone maintenance therapy is associated with a lower risk of HIV infection among people who inject drugs, though this may be attributable in part to differing behavior among people who do and do not seek treatment for addiction, according to a report in the October 3, 2012, British Medical Journal. 
ICAAC 2012: Cobicistat-boosted Elvitegravir Does Not Interact with Methadone
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- Category: HIV Treatment
- Published on Tuesday, 13 November 2012 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
The new HIV integrase inhibitor elvitegravir, boosted with cobicistat, does not cause clinically important changes in levels of methadone or buprenorphine used to manage opiate addiction, researchers reported at the recent 52nd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC 2012) in San Francisco.
AIDS 2012: Syringe Exchange Expansion in U.S. Would be Cost-saving
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- Category: HIV Prevention
- Published on Tuesday, 31 July 2012 00:00
- Written by Kelly Safreed-Harmon
According to a mathematical analysis presented at the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) last week in Washington, DC, providing clean syringes to reduce HIV transmission among Americans who inject drugs is considerably less expensive than treating the new cases of HIV that would occur in the absence of this intervention.
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