Global coverage of interventions to prevent and manage drug-related harms among people who inject drugs: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Harm reduction and treatment programmes are essential for reducing harms for people who inject drugs (PWID). We aimed to update estimates from a 2017 review of global coverage of needle and syringe exchange programmes (NSPs), opioid agonist treatment (OAT), and other harm reduction services that target PWID (eg, take-home naloxone [THN] programmes, supervised consumption facilities, and drug checking services).

Methods

We did a systematic review of available evidence from peer-reviewed and grey literature databases for studies published between Jan 1, 2017, and May 31, 2022. Programmatic data were collected on the availability of services, the number of sites, people accessing services, and equipment distributed in countries where there is evidence of injecting dr

SUBMITTER: Colledge-Frisby S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12765503 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature