PWID - People who inject drugs
(Medical Xpress) ICAP’s Wafaa El-Sadr on success of HPTN 074 trial
“Injection drug use is a major factor underlying the HIV epidemic in Eastern Europe and Central and Southeast Asia,” said Wafaa El-Sadr MD, MPH, MPA, HPTN co-principal investigator and professor of epidemiology and medicine at Columbia University in New...
First Methadone Clinic Opens in Tanzania’s Lake Victoria Region
On February 20, 2018, Tanzanian Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa attended the opening of the Lake Zone’s first methadone clinic, at the ICAP-supported Sekou Toure Regional Hospital in Mwanza city. Similar clinics exist in the capital, Dar es Salaam, and in Zanzibar, but...
Study Uncovers Realities of Needle and Syringe Programs in Kyrgyzstan
In the Kyrgyz Republic, injection drug use accounts for almost 60 percent of HIVinfections. For people who inject drugs, needle and syringe programs—which provide clean needles and syringes at no cost to participants—serve as one of three core HIVinterventions, along...