Sentence examples for harm reduction programmes from inspiring English sources

These include alternatives to arrest and incarceration for minor drug offences, harm reduction programmes, decriminalisation of drug users and small farmers and increased access to pain medication.

Harm reduction programmes among drug users that provide information and promote needle exchange have had spectacular results in Asia, and similar effects are now being seen in Kenya.

This could change "if there was a rational approach to prophylactics", including state adoption of harm reduction programmes at least in a few test regions, he said.

Instead of adopting standard harm reduction programmes, state agencies have promoted abstinence from sex and drugs and called for the development of an HIV prevention scheme to "reflect real national interests".

Despite the effectiveness of drug treatment and harm reduction programmes aimed at reducing illegal drug use, especially heroin use, situations at risk of transmitting HCV infection are still very frequent.

This amount is much higher than all other international sources combined, and has enabled the steady expansion of harm reduction programmes in the region.

He announced that the No 10 strategy unit, after a 19-month investigation, had recommended tough new policies to curb excessive drinking, all of them enshrined in an alcohol harm reduction programme.

David Rourke, from CRI's Arundel Street Project, a harm reduction programme in Sheffield, said they had started with a fortnightly clinic for steroid users, which became weekly and sees at least seven new clients a week.

The implementation of these harm reduction programme in prisoners in Ghana should be seen as an opportunity to improve the health status of the infected prison inmates and to prevent further transmission of these infections, within and without the prisons.

The hypothesis that the harm reduction programme implemented in our region in 1994 reduced the number of new HCV infections as well as of HIV-1 has not been directly evaluated [ 32] and clashes with the results observed in a study in which the preventive programme reduced HIV-1 prevalence while HCV transmission continued at high levels [ 33].

However, with combination of these variables and after correction for possibly confounding variables, we found that full participation in a harm reduction programme (HRP) was associated with a lower risk of HIV and HCV infection in ever-injecting drug users (DU), compared to no participation [incidence rate ratio 0.43 (95% CI 0.21 0.87) and 0.36 (95% CI 0.13 1.03), respectively].