The long winding road of opioid substitution therapy implementation in South-East Asia: challenges to scale up

The long winding road of opioid substitution therapy implementation in South-East Asia: challenges to scale up

The South-East Asia Region contains an estimated 400,000-500,000 people who inject drugs (PWID). HIV prevalence among PWID is commonly 20% or higher in Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar and some regions of India. Opioid substitution therapy (OST) is an important HIV prevention intervention in this part o...

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Main Authors: Gary Reid, Mukta Sharma, Peter Higgs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2014-03-01
Series:Journal of Public Health Research
Subjects:
methadone, Southeastern Asia, illicit drugs, policy
Online Access:http://www.jphres.org/index.php/jphres/article/view/204

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