A community-based approach to linking injection drug users with needed services through pharmacies: an evaluation of a pilot intervention in New York City.
AIDS Educ Prev
; 22(3): 238-51, 2010 Jun.
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| ID: mdl-20528131
ABSTRACT
Studies suggest that community-based approaches could help pharmacies expand their public health role, particularly pertaining to HIV prevention. Thirteen pharmacies participating in New York's Expanded Syringe Access Program, which permits nonprescription syringe sales to reduce syringe-sharing among injection drug users (IDUs), were enrolled in an intervention to link IDU syringe customers to medical/social services. Sociodemographics, injection practices, beliefs about and experiences with pharmacy use, and medical/social service utilization were compared among 29 IDUs purchasing syringes from intervention pharmacies and 66 IDUs purchasing syringes from control pharmacies using chi-square tests. Intervention IDUs reported more positive experiences in pharmacies than controls; both groups were receptive to a greater public health pharmacist role. These data provide evidence that community-based participatory research aided in the implementation of a pilot structural intervention to promote understanding of drug use and HIV prevention among pharmacy staff, and facilitated expansion of pharmacy services beyond syringe sales in marginalized drug-using communities.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Farmacias
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Infecciones por VIH
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Abuso de Sustancias por Vía Intravenosa
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Compartición de Agujas
Tipo de estudio:
Evaluation_studies
Límite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
AIDS Educ Prev
Asunto de la revista:
EDUCACAO
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SINDROME DA IMUNODEFICIENCIA ADQUIRIDA (AIDS)
Año:
2010
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos