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But many Russian officials view harm reduction efforts as encouraging criminal or shameful behavior.
HCV is transmitted by needle and syringe sharing much more easily than HIV is, and it was already widespread when harm reduction efforts began for HIV.
The minister of health in Indonesia, Nafsiah Mboi, brought in Australian experts to persuade her country's top officials to support harm reduction efforts (see p. 162).
It was a pertinent question given that Malaysia had a budding epidemic in people who inject drugs—and Australia had all but derailed HIV with its harm reduction efforts (see p. 156).
Kamarulzaman has published more than 100 studies of HIV/AIDS in Malaysia that look at everything from harm reduction efforts to the molecular epidemiology of viral spread to the efficacy of new treatments.
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Australia's harm reduction effort has had its limits, which the hepatitis C virus (HCV) spotlights.
The arrests come following the university banning alcohol during its orientation week in what it called a "harm reduction" effort.
Despite incidents like these becoming more common, the most sincere harm-reduction efforts have not come from the government, rather the initiatives of smaller groups and charities.
This history has engendered a tension between harm-reduction efforts and abolitionist aims, one that persists to this day.
The good news is that Lysyshyn seems to be encountering a bit less resistance to drug checking than was common with earlier harm-reduction efforts, like needle exchange.
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