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Women Who Use Drugs and Female Partners of Men Who Use Drugs
Peer education can increase protective behavior, including condom use, among women who use drugs and female partners of men who use drugs.
Women Who Use Drugs and Female Partners of Men Who Use Drugs
2 studies Gray I, IIIb PWID, condom use, condoms, drug use, peer education Africa, Central Asia, East Asia, Latin America, Vietnam
PWID need equitable access to antiretroviral therapy. PWID have successfully started antiretroviral therapy in at least 50 countries but PWID are disproportionally less likely than other patients with HIV to receive antiretroviral therapy, even in the countries where PWID represent most of the HIV-positive population. In 2008, PWID were 67% of HIV cases in five countries with the largest HIV epidemics concentrated in PWID yet only 25% of those receiving ART (Wolfe et al., 2010). [See also %{c:13}]
Women Who Use Drugs and Female Partners of Men Who Use Drugs
1 study
Interventions are needed to scale up and increase access to methadone and buprenorphine—effective agonist therapy for the treatment of drug dependence, as well as needle exchange/distribution programs. Studies found only tiny fractions of those who need maintenance medication had access. A study found that user fees for methadone maintenance programs presented a barrier to access to care. In places where no needle exchange programs are operating, high rates of borrowing of used syringes occur, placing IDUs at high risk of acquiring HIV.
Women Who Use Drugs and Female Partners of Men Who Use Drugs
1 study
Interventions are needed to provide women and their partners with a better understanding of the risk of acquiring HIV through sexual practices as well as through injecting drug use (IOM, 2007). Studies found low rates of condom use despite sexual relationships with IDUs, lack of knowledge by IDUs on sexual and reproductive health and lack of access to clean needles. A study also found that many MSM and male intravenous drug users avoid disclosure of their sexual and drug risk behavior along with their HIV status due to stigma and gender norms and that most wives reported violence and little or no condom use. HIV-positive male IDUs want help with disclosure to their wives. Most wives of IDUs reported only a single lifetime sexual partner and only a tiny proportion reported injecting drug use.
Women Who Use Drugs and Female Partners of Men Who Use Drugs
1 study
Efforts are needed to eliminate compulsory drug detention and instead, provide PWID with HIV prevention and testing services and effective drug dependency treatment by medical professionals. Detention centers are administered by police, military or other national government public security authorities and operate outside the form criminal justice system with detainees held without trial or right of appeal and those detained do not allow people to leave voluntarily (Wolfe, 2012). Studies found that women who use drugs were not given reproductive health services, including PMTCT services in compulsory detention and/or prison settings. Detoxification programs were substandard and ineffective. Despite high rates of HIV, antiretroviral treatment is largely unavailable in compulsory drug detention centers. One study found high rates of injecting drug use within prison and high rates of syringe sharing within prisons plus incarceration was not associated with reduction in drug use, with over a quarter of these female drug users. PWID in and out of prison who have started antiretroviral treatment should be able to continue treatment with access to medical supervision. Treatment in compulsory drug detention takes the form of sanction rather than therapy, with high relapse rates.
Women Who Use Drugs and Female Partners of Men Who Use Drugs
1 study