Prevention of HIV/AIDS among injecting drug users in Russia: opportunities and barriers to scaling-up of harm reduction programmes.
Prevention of HIV/AIDS among injecting drug users in Russia: opportunities and barriers to scaling-up of harm reduction programmes.
Elena Tkatchenko-Schmidt,A. Renton,2 Authors,R. Atun
2008 · DOI: 10.1016/J.HEALTHPOL.2007.07.005
Health Policy · 50 Citations
TLDR
Examination of attitudes of Russian policy-makers and HIV stakeholders towards harm reduction (HR) scale up suggests that Russia is experiencing the situation of power parity between HR supporters and opponents with many stakeholders being indecisive or cautious to express their views.