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Policy Guidelines for Collaborative TB and HIV Services for injecting and other drug users: An Integrated Approach
The World Health Organization, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, have just published a new set of policy guidelines for targeted action on HIV and TB needed to reach drug users.
The publication, titled “Policy Guidelines for Collaborative and HIV Services for Injecting and other Drug Users: An Integrated Approach,” part of the series “Evidence for Action - Technical Paper,” offers new recommendations for integrated TB and HIV services for patients suffering from substance-abuse addiction.
Here is a summary of the 13 recommendations:
Joint Planning:
- Multisectoral coordination on TB and HIV activities for drug users
- National plans with roles and responsibilities of service providers
- Staff training to build effective teams
- Operational research on TB/HIV services for drug users
Key Interventions:
- TB infection control in congregate settings including prisons
- Case-finding protocol for TB and HIV for services dealing with drug users
- Access to appropriate treatments for drug users
- Isoniazid preventive therapy for drug users living with HIV
- Health workers to assess and provide HIV prevention methods
Overcoming Barriers:
- Universal access to TB and HIV prevention, treatment and care as well as drug treatment services to drug users
- Quality medical services available to prisoners
- Treatment adherence support measures for drug users
- Other infections (e.g. hepatitis) and factors should not prevent drug users accessing HIV and TB treatments
To read publication, please click on the link provided here. For the policy brief, please follow this url: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2008/9789241596947_eng.pdf.
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Policy Guidelines for Collaborative TB and HIV Services for injecting and other drug users: An Integrated Approach (external URL) Link leads to: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2008/9789241596930_eng.pdf
Summary: The World Health Organization, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, have just published a new set of policy guidelines for targeted action on HIV and TB needed to reach drug users.
The publication, titled “Policy Guidelines for Collaborative and HIV Services for Injecting and other Drug Users: An Integrated Approach,” part of the series “Evidence for Action - Technical Paper,” offers new recommendations for integrated TB and HIV services for patients suffering from substance-abuse addiction.
Here is a summary of the 13 recommendations:
Joint Planning:
- Multisectoral coordination on TB and HIV activities for drug users
- National plans with roles and responsibilities of service providers
- Staff training to build effective teams
- Operational research on TB/HIV services for drug users
Key Interventions:
- TB infection control in congregate settings including prisons
- Case-finding protocol for TB and HIV for services dealing with drug users
- Access to appropriate treatments for drug users
- Isoniazid preventive therapy for drug users living with HIV
- Health workers to assess and provide HIV prevention methods
Overcoming Barriers:
- Universal access to TB and HIV prevention, treatment and care as well as drug treatment services to drug users
- Quality medical services available to prisoners
- Treatment adherence support measures for drug users
- Other infections (e.g. hepatitis) and factors should not prevent drug users accessing HIV and TB treatments
To read publication, please click on the link provided here. For the policy brief, please follow this url: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2008/9789241596947_eng.pdf.Source: World Health Organization - WHO
Publication Date: August 4, 2008
Language: English
Keywords: Adherence, prevention, Publications & Research, TB transmission, treatment
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