{"id":16045,"date":"2012-02-01T10:24:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T10:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=16045"},"modified":"2012-02-01T10:24:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T10:24:34","slug":"a-call-for-comprehensive-responses-to-hiv-in-people-who-use-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/16045","title":{"rendered":"A Call for Comprehensive Responses to HIV in People Who Use Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lancet article &#8216;Time to Act: A Call for Comprehensive Responses to HIV in People Who Use Drugs&#8217; originally published in July 2010 is now available in Chinese, Farsi, French, Japanese, Polish, Russian and Spanish from the Open Society Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The article reviews the available evidence to demonstrate how a comprehensive response can reduce HIV infection rates in people who use drugs, by implementing coherent public health and law enforcement strategies. It is argued that cost-effective interventions such as needle and syringe exchange programs, increased access to treatment and the decriminalisation of people who use drugs, to name but a few, would benefit individuals, families and communities.<\/p>\n<p>The documents can be downloaded from:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.soros.org\/initiatives\/drugpolicy\/articles_publications\/publications\/time-to-act-20100907\">http:\/\/www.soros.org\/initiatives\/drugpolicy\/articles_publications\/publications\/time-to-act-20100907<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lancet article &#8216;Time to Act: A Call for Comprehensive Responses to HIV in People Who Use Drugs&#8217; originally published in July 2010 is now available in Chinese, Farsi, French, Japanese, Polish, Russian and Spanish from the Open Society Foundation. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}