Politics vs. data on needle swaps
| Autor: | David Malakoff |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Hungary Multidisciplinary business.industry Public health Politics HIV Infections Public relations Clean needles medicine.disease United States Heroin Power (social and political) Needle-Exchange Programs Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) medicine Humans Business Closure (psychology) Needle exchange programs medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Science (New York, N.Y.). 355(6325) |
| ISSN: | 1095-9203 |
| Popis: | After Hungary9s conservative Fidesz party took power in 2010, it began cutting funding for needle exchange programs, which aim to prevent the spread of blood-borne diseases such as HIV/AIDS and hepatitis among users of heroin and other injectable drugs. Study after study has shown that giving drug users clean needles, and collecting dirty ones, can be a cost-effective way of preventing disease and death and doesn9t increase drug use or related crime. But the evidence often loses out to squeamish politicians and public misperceptions. So it was in Hungary, where they have forced the closure of the nation9s two largest programs. The move will likely lead to "a public health disaster," researchers say. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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