Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: The US war on harm reduction: fixing policy on intelligence and facts | Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Commentary Open Access The US war on harm reduction fixing policy on intelligence and facts Alex Wodak Dr 1 2 Address 1Director Alcohol and Drug Service St Vincent s Hospital Sydney Australia and 2Conjoint Senior Lecturer School of Public Health and Community Medicine School of Medicine The University of New South Wales Sydney Australia Email AlexWodak - awodak@ Corresponding author Published 15 September 2005 Received 19 July 2005 Accepted 15 September 2005 Harm Reduction Journal 2005 2 14 doi 1477-7517-2-14 This article is available from http content 2 1 14 2005 Wodak 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. At a two-day private meeting in Tokyo in June 2005 some of Japan s most senior politicians and powerbrokers met to consider the steadily expanding HIV AIDS epidemic. AIDS has recently become a matter of increasing concern in Japan following an HIV epidemic in several major Japanese cities among Japanese men having sex with men at sex-on-premises venues. The Japanese elites at the Tokyo meeting were shocked to learn that the United States has by far the highest annual AIDS incidence among OECD countries at 15 100 000 1 . Spain with an annual AIDS incidence of 100 000 has the second highest rate among industrialized countries while Australia was well down the ranking with an incidence only one tenth that of the United States at 100 000 1 . The pragmatic Japanese were stunned to learn that the high AIDS incidence in the United States was no accident abstinence-only rather than explicit peer-based sex education and tokenistic rather than early and vigorous needle syringe programmes have produced the expected public .
