Russian Red Cross (Irkursk regional branch) | Harm Reduction. Manual for outreach workers and volunteers of harm reduction (from injection drug use) programs. Draft version.

Harm Reduction. Manual for outreach workers and volunteers of harm reduction (from injection drug use) programs. Draft version.

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Date received: 2008-06-06

Language: Русский

Code: 213

Year published: 2002

Author: A. Sarang and others

Organization: AIDS Foundation East-West

Carrier: Printed

Harm reduction: history and philosophy. Strategies of harm reduction programs: syringe exchange, substitution therapy, outreach. Narcotics in the context of the Russian legislation. Classification of narcotics, their effects and harm reduction of vulnerable consequences from injection drug use. Overdose. HIV-infection and AIDS. Viral hepatitis. Tuberculosis. Sexually transmitted infections. Safe sexual behavior. Disinfection of injection equipment.