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  • The streets weren't safe for drug users. So these countries created spaces for them.

    Taylor Knopf

    February 04, 2019 |

    North Carolina Health News |

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    Response Location: Switzerland, Geneva

    Despite hesitance and not complete buy-in, European countries are seeing signs of success from implementing drug consumption rooms. While the United States has been hesitant to adopt this tactic as a solution for fear of normalization of drug use, countries with these facilities are reporting less “injection-related litter in public spaces,” increased public awareness, less stigma, and fewer overdoses.

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  • Switzerland fights heroin with heroin

    Taylor Knopf

    January 28, 2019 |

    North Carolina Health News |

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    Response Location: Switzerland

    Drug-assisted treatment has reduced rates of new substance abuse cases and HIV infections in Switzerland. With the implementation of an innovative drug policy program in 1994, Swiss doctors began to treat those suffering with chronic substance abuse with heroin-assisted treatment (HAT). The program benefitted from positive results in early trials and has encouraged the implementation of similar programs in other countries.

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  • Switzerland couldn't stop drug users. So it started supporting them.

    Taylor Knopf

    January 21, 2019 |

    North Carolina Health News |

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    Response Location: Switzerland

    By prioritizing treatment over law enforcement, Switzerland dramatically reduced its drug problem. In 1994, the country adopted a progressive policy to treat heroin addiction as a public health crisis, focusing on harm reduction, treatment, and prevention in addition to traditional law enforcement. The policy, which embraces medicated-assisted treatment and universal access to services, helped greatly reduce issues such as the incidence of HIV, drug overdoses, and deaths over the long-term.

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  • Sharps Kits, Syringes and Solidarity

    Sierra Webster

    January 10, 2019 |

    Eugene Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Eugene, Oregon

    Many health care facilities that supply needles don't have the proper training or experience to work with trans-identified people that are undergoing hormone therapy. To help address this gap in care, an education and advocacy nonprofit in Eugene, Oregon acts as a hub for the community's clean needle exchange needs.

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  • The Houses That Help Keep HIV at Bay

    Joseph Darius Jaafari

    December 15, 2018 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    The Belle Reve House in Louisiana houses and treats low-income and homeless people living with AIDS. The house offers wraparound services and works to keep the virus at almost undetectable levels. Residents are less likely to spread the virus when living at Belle Reve, which is crucial in New Orleans, where the transmission rate is among the highest in the country.

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  • These Kenyan widows are fighting against sexual 'cleansing'

    Louise Donovan Hannah O'Neill

    October 23, 2018 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    In Kenya, and in other parts of Africa, widows are considered impure until a male has sex with them and cleanses them. If they don’t get cleansed they face social stigma. However, one widow, Roseline Orwa, refused, and instead created the Rona Foundation. “The center provides loss and grief counseling, financial support and teaches entrepreneurial skills.” She also successfully lobbied for a bill that outlawed widow cleansing. However, even though the practice is still prevalent in rural parts of Kenya, both men and women are talking about ending the practice through talk sessions offered by the center. “A

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  • Mothers lead children HIV transmission fight in Kisii and Homa Bay

    Angela Oketch

    October 21, 2018 |

    Business Daily |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    A mentorship program in Kenya has proven effective at slashing rates of HIV transmission to infants and reducing stigma surrounding the illness. Mentor mothers offer support and education to HIV-positive pregnant women to ensure they stay on anti-retro viral drugs to avoid passing the virus to their unborn children and they work with them through the first 18 months of a child's life. Similar programs in other African countries have reached an estimated 1.4 million HIV-positive women.

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  • Britons Pay Hundreds for H.I.V. Drugs. Why Do Americans Pay Thousands?

    Tina Rosenberg

    September 25, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: England, Liverpool

    When it comes to helping H.I.V. patients, Britain's National Health Service is able to keep prices for treatment much lower than the United States does by encouraging the use of generic drugs. The National Health Service's structure allows it to incentivize prescribing generic treatment in a way that the American system doesn't, especially as H.I.V. treatments are not being consistently replaced by something found to be more efficient.

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  • Needle-Exchange Program Connects Drug Users to Treatment

    Heather Boerner

    September 10, 2018 |

    Medscape |

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    Response Location: United States, Orlando, Florida

    Miami-Dade county is a hotspot for AIDS, but it used to be illegal to offer syringe exchange services there. After studying the results of a San Francisco program, the county amended the law to allow a pilot syringe exchange program. Overdose deaths have declined by almost 40 percent.

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  • Sperm ‘washing' procedure boosts fight against Aids

    Nasibo Kabale

    July 31, 2018 |

    Business Daily |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    A relatively inexpensive procedure known as “sperm washing” can prevent HIV transmission from a hopeful father to the mother and baby. A spinning device separates sperm from seminal fluid, the primary transmitter of HIV. The procedure can also be helpful for women with endometriosis.

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