Double counting of clients using services in Iran: implications for assessing the reach of harm reduction programs

Double counting of clients using services in Iran: implications for assessing the reach of harm reduction programs

Abstract Background Many people with high-risk sexual or injection behaviors use harm reduction services with different identities and are therefore counted more than once in client databases. This practice results in inaccurate statistics on the number of clients served and the effective reach of t...

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Main Authors: Fatemeh Tavakoli, Willi Mcfarland, Nima Ghalekhani, Mehrdad Khezri, Ali Akbar Haghdoost, Mohammad Mehdi Gouya, Marzieh Mahboobi, Ali Mohammad Hosseionpour, Ali Komasi, Mehdi Ghorbanian, Nasim Nasiri Moghadam, Maryam Taghipour, Hamid Sharifi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-08-01
Series:Harm Reduction Journal
Subjects:
Harm reduction
Double counting
HIV
Drug use
Iran
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-023-00851-5

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