Review Article
Substance Abuse Treatment, HIV/AIDS, and the Continuum of Response for People Who Inject Drugs
Table 1
Listing of internationally accepted essential interventions for HIV prevention for people who use drugs.
| (1) Needle and syringe programmes (NSP)/syringe service programs (SSP) | | (2) Substance use disorder treatment, including medication-assisted treatment (MAT) and opioid substitution treatment (OST) | | (3) HIV counselling and testing (HCT) | | (4) Antiretroviral therapy (ART) | | (5) Prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infection (STI) | | (6) Condom distribution programs for PWID and their sex partners | | (7) Targeted information, education, and communication (IEC) for PWID and their sex partners | | (8) Vaccination, diagnosis, and treatment of viral hepatitis infection | | (9) Prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of tuberculosis | |
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