| Titre : | Evaluating effectiveness of syringe exchange programmes : current issues and future prospects. (2000) |
| Auteurs : | F.I. BASTOS ; S.A. STRATHDEE |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Social science and medicine (vol. 51, n° 12, 2000) |
| Pagination : | 1771-1782 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | Lutte contre toxicomanie ; Programme santé ; Evaluation ; Efficacité ; Toxicomanie ; Infection ; Prévention santé ; Epidémiologie ; Toxicomane ; Homme |
| Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST R0xsjZ6C. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Although a large body of international literature has found syringe exchange programmes (SEPs) to be associated with reduced incidence of blood borne pathogens among injection drug users, recent studies have fuelled controversy surrounding SEP effectiveness. Existing studies are observational in nature and have seldom considered ecologic aspects affecting SEP functioning and evaluation. The authors apply concepts from infectious disease epidemiology to discuss the direct and indirect effects of SEP upon the spread of blood borne pathogens in drug users, their social networks and the broader community. Further, the authors discuss social policies, particularly drug control policies, which have directly and or indirectly limited SEP functioning at local and national levels. A critical review of the literature suggests that biases common to observational studies can account for higher HIV incidence among SEP attenders relative to non-attenders. Strong selection factors often lead high-risk drug users to be over-represented among SEP attenders. Failure to account for these factors and the indirect effects of SEPs can bias interpretations of programme effectiveness. Future SEP evaluations should consider behavioural data, the local ethnographic context, the prevalence of infectious disease in the groups under study and the structural components of SEP that are most and least effective at reducing incidence of blood borne pathogens. (...) |
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