Sentence examples for unsafe injecting practices from inspiring English sources
"If we fail to confront these challenges head on, and unsafe injecting practices continue, the health risks are potentially disastrous.
The limited number of IDUs enables more intensive follow-up and counselling to prevent comorbidities and onward HIV transmission by unsafe injecting practices.
In Italy, as in many other countries, HIV prevention programmes for problem drug users (PDUs) have mainly focused on HIV transmission through unsafe injecting practices with less attention to sexual risk behaviours.
It is easy to overlook gender-specific issues that they face, such as power dynamics that lead to higher-risk sexual practices and to unsafe injecting practices imposed by male injecting partners.
Prisons have high prevalence of HIV-infected and at-risk populations, due to overcrowding, poor nutrition, limited access to health care, continued drug use, unsafe injecting practices, unprotected sex and tattooing.
3 Injecting drug users are known to be the population most at risk of HCV infection, with a prevalence estimated between 60% and 80%. 4 5 The smoking, snorting 6 7 and, in particular, the intravenous use 8 9 of cocaine is also a well-established HCV infection risk factor (as it is associated with more frequent unsafe injecting practices).
At the same time, more than half the participants continued unsafe injection practices in the last one month, especially, those who injected more frequently and accessed NSP services.
The longer a person has injected, the more likely he or she is to have been exposed to HCV via unsafe injection practices, which were quite common among study participants.
Unsafe injection practices are prevalent worldwide and may result in spread of infection.
No unsafe injection practices were identified.
Most policymakers shared that negligence, lack of awareness about safe injection practices and risks of unsafe injection practices were the main factors responsible for unsafe injection practices.
