Event type:
Seminar
Event date:
Tuesday, 22 October 2019 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Berg Family Foundation Seminar Room, Level 6, Wallace Wurth Building, Kensington Campus, UNSW Sydney
Contact for inquiries:
Rata Joseph, +61 (2) 9385 0900 or recpt@kirby.unsw.edu.au
Booking deadline:
Kirby Institute Seminar Series presents
Abstract
In contrast to many settings, people who inject drugs (PWID) in the Netherlands do not play a substantial role in the current spread of HIV and other blood-borne infections. The early implementation of harm-reduction programs (HRP) (i.e. opiate substitution therapy [OST] and needle and syringe exchange programs [NSP]) might have contributed to declining incidence of these infections over time. Using data from the Amsterdam Cohort Studies with over 30 years of follow up, we assessed the causal effect of HRP on HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B infection risk among PWID.
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