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ACW:Pharmacotherapy: February 2007
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007. Mauritius: HI Virus hits drug users. By, Nasseem Ackbarally, Inter Press Service (Johannesburg), February 20, 2007. In contrast to the rest of southern Africa, intravenous (IV) drug users have become the group most vulnerable to the transmission of the HI virus in Mauritius. This has led the Mauritian government to introduce a syringe and needle exchange programme in a bid to stem HIV infection among Mauritian drug users. Social worker Cadress Runghen ascribes the increased ...
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ACW:Pharmacotherapy: May 2005
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Sunday, May 22, 2005. HIV drug users lagging behind on the road to ARV treatment. For example, injection drug users represent less than 8% of all people receiving antiretroviral treatment in developing and transitional countries. Of those people in developing/transitional countries receiving ARVs, only 35,391 people are identified as drug users and of these approximately 30,000 of them are in Brazil. For Kazatchkine, limiting access to treatment raises important ethical and societal issues - because it i...
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ACW:Pharmacotherapy: November 2005
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Thursday, November 03, 2005. Drug substitution treatment in Vietnam to fight HIV/AIDS. November 2, 2005, Associated Foreign Press. VIET NAM- Substitution treatment for drug addicts will be a key part of the fight against HIV/AIDS in the future in Vietnam, government officials and the World Health Organisation said. Needle and syringe use account for the majority of new infections of HIV/AIDS in Asia, the WHO said in a statement. Official figures say that in May 2005, a reported 95,512 people were living ...
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ACW:Pharmacotherapy: January 2006
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Tuesday, January 31, 2006. Bali: Sanglah Hospital Appointed as WHO's Model for Methadone Treatment. Denpasar, Bali- The Sanglah Hospital has been appointed by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a model hospital for the treatment (RM) of 20,395 drug-addicts by providing them with methadone medicines in 2005, a spokesperson of the hospital, Putu Putra Wisada, said on Sunday. The special unit serves 80-90 patients on average every day," Putu Putra Wisada said. Source: Antara News, Indonesian News Agency.
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ACW:Pharmacotherapy: July 2005
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Tuesday, July 26, 2005. Methadone urged for AIDS fight in ex-Soviet states. By Andrei Khalip, Reuters, 26 Jul 2005. RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil,- Russia and its neighbors should lift their ban on using opiates such as methadone to treat addicts who inject drugs, scientists at an international AIDS conference said on Monday. Methadone is essentially an AIDS prevention tool," said professor Chris Beyrer, founding director of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
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ACW:Pharmacotherapy: March 2005
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Monday, March 14, 2005. Opioid substitution and HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention. Thomas Kerr, Alex Wodak, Richard Elliott, Julio S Montaner, Evan Wood. The Lancet, Vol 364. November 27, 2004. Thomas Kerr, Alex Wodak, Richard Elliott, Julio S Montaner, Evan Wood. British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6Z 1Y6 (TK, JSM, EW); Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Montreal, Quebec (TK, RE); Alcohol and Drug Service, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydn...
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ACW:Pharmacotherapy: April 2007
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Friday, April 20, 2007. SOUTH AFRICA: New study explores drugs and HIV link. By, IRIN PlusNews, April 18, 2007. A new study is to put the relationship between illegal drug use and risky sex patterns in South Africa in the spotlight for the first time. Although there has been a move towards exploring the direct and indirect roles of drug use in the transmission of HIV in other continents, the situation in Africa has been largely overlooked. Welcoming the opportunity to assist the MRC in this "timely inter...
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ACW:Pharmacotherapy: March 2007
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Monday, March 26, 2007. By, Heather Muller, The Eureka Reporter, February 25, 2007. On Feb. 3, 2006, Michelle Roskopp lost her long battle with drug addiction, with mental illness, with physical illness and with the circumstances of her short, troubled life. She committed suicide a month before her 37th birthday a death her mother said could have been delayed but probably not prevented. Why did Michelle die? She said to him, ‘What are you going to do, how are you going to do it? She had been diagnosed wi...