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News and information about HIV in injecting drug users. The criminalisation of drug use and the marginalisation of drug users contribute to vulnerability to HIV.

Chemsex & recreational drug use

Breaking bad in Tehran: how Iran got a taste for crystal meth

Editor's pick
The Guardian
14 May 2014
Harm reduction

Brighton and Hove drug-use rooms 'time not right'

Editor's pick
BBC News
14 May 2014
HIV prevention policy

Fourth Conference on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia opens in Moscow

Editor's pick
UNAIDS (press release)
14 May 2014
People who inject drugs

Crimea facing 'human tragedy' on AIDS: UN envoy

Editor's pick
Medical Xpress
13 May 2014
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Annual HIV tests for high-risk groups and one-off screening for all others could have a big impact on UK's HIV epidemic

News
9 May 2014
Epidemiology

Liberia: Gays Top HIV Population

Editor's pick
AllAfrica
8 May 2014
Retention & linkage to care

Voucher incentives improve engagement with HIV care among people who inject drugs

News
7 May 2014
Harm reduction

Experts by Experience: injecting drug users' protective practices

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Drink and Drug News
6 May 2014
Hepatitis C transmission & prevention

UK - 'Eradicating hepatitis C is a realistic aim'

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Health Service Journal
6 May 2014
Harm reduction

Needle and syringe programmes: aim is enough fresh equipment for every injection

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Drug & Alcohol Findings
29 April 2014
Harm reduction

Methadone and buprenorphine-naloxone both associated with reduced HIV risk among people who inject drugs

News
29 April 2014
Harm reduction

Implementation of a comprehensive harm reduction programme curtailed the HIV epidemic among people who inject drugs in Taiwan

News
28 April 2014
Behaviour change interventions

Harm-Reduction Program Optimizes HIV/AIDS Prevention, UCSF Study Shows

Editor's pick
University of California San Francisco press release
22 April 2014
Sexually transmitted infections epidemiology

'Chem sex' commonly reported by UK gay men diagnosed with shigella

News
17 April 2014
Harm reduction

Crimea: Russian Law Corners Drug Users

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Inter Press Service
16 April 2014
Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

Nurses help addicts inject heroin at controversial clinic battling HIV

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PBS Newshour (video)
14 April 2014
Chemsex & recreational drug use

"Chemsex" in gay and bisexual men: what's going on?

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Recovery Review
14 April 2014
Harm reduction

NICE seeks to limit the spread of blood-borne viruses among steroid users

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NICE (press release)
9 April 2014
Harm reduction

NHS adviser calls for needle exchanges for steroid users

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The Guardian
9 April 2014
Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

Giving treatment to specific high-risk people may bring down HIV faster than distributing it equally

News
8 April 2014
Hepatitis C transmission & prevention

First European Conference on Hepatitis C and Drug Use, Berlin, 23-24 October 2014

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EATG
7 April 2014
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Expanded HIV testing may find more acute infections as well as more late presenters

News
7 April 2014
Drug policy & policing

Doctors criticise UN's approach to global drugs control

Editor's pick
The Lancet
31 March 2014
Harm reduction

Heroin on NHS and shooting galleries rejected by Scottish Goverment

Editor's pick
Herald Scotland
31 March 2014