DHS ANALYTICAL STUDIES 62
PLoS ONE 9(6): e99880. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0099880
Published June 17, 2014
Practice paper in Brief 24
Containment strategies for Ebola rupture fundamental features of social, political and religious life. Control efforts that involve local people and appreciate their perspectives, social structures and institutions are therefore vital
Informe sobre poblaciones clave.
With the goal of ending viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030, the Regional Action Plan will provide an actionable framework for implementing evidence-based interventions at scale. It will be informed through strategic monitoring of the response, that must be equitable and sustainable an...d allow for innovations for acceleration and reaching out to all in need with health services. A major reduction in prices of newer drugs to potentially cure hepatitis C offers an added opportunity to work towards its elimination.
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International Journal of Drug Policy 24 (2013) e91-98
PLoS Med 15(7): e1002615. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pmed.1002615
Harm reduction: evidence, impacts and challenges
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Constituting the second part of the World Drug Report 2022, the present booklet contains an overview of the global demand for and supply of drugs.
The first chapter of the booklet begins with the latest estimates of the number of people who use drugs, the distribution of those users by type of drug...s, age and sex, and recent trends in the use of drugs. The chapter also reviews the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on drug use patterns and service provision. Other issues examined in the chapter are the health consequences of drug use, including the number of people in treatment for drug use disorders and the extent of drug injecting and of HIV and hepatitis C among people who inject drugs. The chapter concludes with a review of the extent to which strategies, policies and interventions are in place to respond to the drug use problem.
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Nguyen HH et al. Journal of the International AIDS Society 2018, 21:e25151 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jia2.25151/full | https://doi.org/10.1002/jia2.25151
16 January 2008
Global Health Advocacy and Activism Department of Global Health, George Washington University
Research Article
PLOS Medicine | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002374 August 8, 2017
Revision for Field Review