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Public Health Reports

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), in collaboration with the Office of AIDS Research of the National Institutes of Health, published a Special Issue of Public Health Reports based on the "Research Synthesis Symposium on the Prevention of HIV in Drug Abusers" in Flagstaff, AZ, in 1997. This Special Issue provides a comprehensive review of the origins, evolution and status of the science knowledge base regarding HIV prevention among drug users from NIDA's and other HIV research intervention programs in recent years. Just click on the links below to view the specific reports you wish to access.

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Table of Contents

Preface
Alan I. Leshner

HIV Prevention with Drug-Using Populations—Current Status and Future Prospects:Introduction and Overview
Richard H. Needle, Susan L. Coyle, Jacques Normand, Elizabeth Lambert, Helen Cesari

Outreach-Based HIV Prevention for Injecting Drug Users: A Review of Published Outcome Data
Susan L. Coyle, Richard H. Needle, Jacques Normand

Peer-Delivered Interventions Reduce HIV Risk Behaviors among Out-of-Treatment Drug Abusers
Linda B. Cottler, Wilson M. Compton, Arbi Ben Abdallah, Renee Cunningham-Williams, Faye Abram, Carl Fichtenbaum, William Dotson

Harnessing Peer Networks as an Instrument for AIDS Prevention: Results from a Peer-Driven Intervention
Robert S. Broadhead, Douglas D. Heckathorn, David L. Weakliem, Denise L. Anthony, Heather Madray, Robert J. Mills, James Hughes

Community-Based Outreach HIV Intervention for Street-Recruited Drug Users in Madras, India
M. Suresh Kumar, Shakuntala Mudaliar, Desmond Daniels

Syringe Exchange Programs: Lowering the Transmission of Syringe-Borne Diseases and Beyond
Robert Heimer

The Role of Needle Exchange Programs in HIV Prevention
David Vlahov and Benjamin Junge

Pharmacy Access to Syringes among Injecting Drug Users: Follow-Up Findings from Hartford, Connecticut
Merrill Singer, Hans A. Baer, Glenn Scott, Sheryl Horowitz, Beth Weinstein

Satellite Exchange in the Baltimore Needle Exchange Program
Thomas W. Valente, Robert K. Foreman, Benjamin Junge, David Vlahov

Drug Abuse Treatment as AIDS Prevention
David S. Metzger, Helen Navaline, George E. Woody

Methadone Treatment Protects against HIV Infection: Two Decades of Experience in the Bronx, New York City
Diana M. Hartel and Ellie E. Schoenbaum

Facilitating Treatment Entry among Out-of-Treatment Injection Drug Users
Robert E. Booth, Carol Kwiatkowski, Martin Y. Iguchi, Francesca Pinto, Debbie John

Drug Abuse Treatment Success among Needle Exchange Participants
Robert Brooner, Michael Kidorf, Van King, Peter Beilenson, Dace Svikis, David Vlahov

The Network Approach and Interventions To Prevent HIV among Injection Drug Users
Alan Neaigus

Outreach in Natural Settings: The Use of Peer Leaders for HIV Prevention among Injecting Drug Users’ Networks
Carl A. Latkin

The Outreach-Assisted Model of Partner Notification with IDUs
Judith A. Levy and Susan E. Fox

HIV Prevention among Injecting Drug Users: Responses in Developing and Transitional Countries
Andrew L. Ball, Sujata Rana, Karl L. Dehne

Fifteen Years of Research on Preventing HIV Infection among Injecting Drug Users: What We Have Learned, What We Have Not Learned, What We Have Done, What We Have Not Done
Don C. Des Jarlais and Samuel R. Friedman

Bridging the Gap between Science and Practice: Insight to Researchers from Practitioners
Mike Shriver, Ron de Burger, Christopher Brown, Harry L. Simpson, Beth Meyerson

What We Have Learned from Research about the Prevention of HIV Transmission among Drug Abusers
Zili Sloboda

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