Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Assessing the role of syringe dispensing machines and mobile van outlets in reaching hard-to-reach and high-risk groups of injecting drug users (IDUs): a review | Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Review Open Access Assessing the role of syringe dispensing machines and mobile van outlets in reaching hard-to-reach and high-risk groups of injecting drug users IDUs a review Md Mofizul Islam 1 3 and Katherine M Conigrave2 3 Address 1STIRC the University of Sydney Sydney NSW Australia 2Drug Health Services Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Sydney NSW Australia and 3Faculty of Medicine the University of Sydney Sydney NSW Australia Email Md Mofizul Islam - mikhokan143@ Katherine M Conigrave - katec@ Corresponding author Published 24 October 2007 Received 5 March 2007 Accepted 24 October 2007 Harm Reduction Journal 2007 4 14 doi 1477-7517-4-14 This article is available from http content 4 1 14 2007 Islam and Conigrave licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Reaching hard-to-reach and high-risk injecting drug users IDUs is one of the most important challenges for contemporary needle syringe programs NSPs . The aim of this review is to examine based upon the available international experience the effectiveness of syringe vending machines and mobile van bus based NSPs in making services more accessible to these hard-to-reach and high-risk groups of IDUs. A literature search revealed 40 papers reports of which 18 were on dispensing machines including vending and exchange machines and 22 on mobile vans. The findings demonstrate that syringe dispensing machines and mobile vans are promising modalities of NSPs which can make services more accessible to the target group and in particular to the harder-to-reach and higher-risk groups of IDUs. Their anonymous and confidential approaches make services attractive accessible and
