Interventions to prevent HIV and Hepatitis C in people who inject drugs: A review of reviews to assess evidence of effectiveness

International Journal of Drug Policy - Tập 25 Số 1 - Trang 34-52 - 2014
Georgina J MacArthur1, Eva van Velzen2, Norah Palmateer3, Jo Kimber4, Anastasia Pharris5, Vivian Hope6,7, Avril Taylor8, Kirsty Roy3, Esther Aspinall9, David Goldberg3, Tim Rhodes6, Dagmar Hedrich10, T Hovi5, Matthew Hickman1, Sharon Hutchinson3,8
1School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Canynge Hall, 39 Whatley Road, Bristol, BS8 2PS, UK
2NHS Sutton and Merton/London KSS Specialty School of Public Health, UK
3Health Protection Scotland, Glasgow, UK
4University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
5European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Solna, Sweden
6Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
7Health Protection Services, Health Protection Agency, London, UK
8University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, Scotland, UK
9Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
10European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, Lisbon, Portugal

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