Philanthropic donor perspectives about providing harm reduction services for people living with HIV/AIDS in a hospital setting.

ABSTRACT: Hospital-based harm reduction services are needed to reduce drug-related harms, facilitate retention in care, and increase medical treatment adherence for people who use drugs. Philanthropic donor support plays a key role in delivering such innovative services which might fall outside current funding streams. However, little is known about how the principles, implementation, and practice of harm reduction services, which are often highly stigmatized, may impact donor behaviours. We explored this issue within Casey House, a speciality hospital in Toronto, Canada. Our mixed methods study utilized an explanatory sequential design. A convenience sample of n = 106 philanthropic individual donors, recruited via email, completed an anonymous web-based survey, between July and October 2020, which

SUBMITTER: Rudzinski K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9668384 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature