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Harm reduction must be recognised an essential public health intervention during crises
The COVID-19 had a substantial impact on the provision of harm reduction services for people who use drugs globally. These front-line public health interventions serve a population that due to stigma, discrimination and criminalisation, faces barriers to accessing health and social services and are...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8655710/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34886861 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12954-021-00573-6 |
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author | Csák, Robert Shirley-Beavan, Sam McHenry, Arielle Edelman Daniels, Colleen Burke-Shyne, Naomi |
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description | The COVID-19 had a substantial impact on the provision of harm reduction services for people who use drugs globally. These front-line public health interventions serve a population that due to stigma, discrimination and criminalisation, faces barriers to accessing health and social services and are particularly vulnerable to public health crises. Despite this, the pandemic has seen many harm reduction services close, reduce operations or have their funding reduced. Simultaneously, around the world, harm reduction services have been forced to adapt, and in doing so have demonstrated resilience, flexibility and innovation. Governments must recognise the unique abilities of harm reduction services, particularly those led by the community, and identify them as essential health services that must be protected and strengthened in times of crisis. |
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spelling | pubmed-86557102021-12-09 Harm reduction must be recognised an essential public health intervention during crises Csák, Robert Shirley-Beavan, Sam McHenry, Arielle Edelman Daniels, Colleen Burke-Shyne, Naomi Harm Reduct J Commentary The COVID-19 had a substantial impact on the provision of harm reduction services for people who use drugs globally. These front-line public health interventions serve a population that due to stigma, discrimination and criminalisation, faces barriers to accessing health and social services and are particularly vulnerable to public health crises. Despite this, the pandemic has seen many harm reduction services close, reduce operations or have their funding reduced. Simultaneously, around the world, harm reduction services have been forced to adapt, and in doing so have demonstrated resilience, flexibility and innovation. Governments must recognise the unique abilities of harm reduction services, particularly those led by the community, and identify them as essential health services that must be protected and strengthened in times of crisis. BioMed Central 2021-12-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8655710/ /pubmed/34886861 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12954-021-00573-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Csák, Robert Shirley-Beavan, Sam McHenry, Arielle Edelman Daniels, Colleen Burke-Shyne, Naomi Harm reduction must be recognised an essential public health intervention during crises |
title | Harm reduction must be recognised an essential public health intervention during crises |
title_full | Harm reduction must be recognised an essential public health intervention during crises |
title_fullStr | Harm reduction must be recognised an essential public health intervention during crises |
title_full_unstemmed | Harm reduction must be recognised an essential public health intervention during crises |
title_short | Harm reduction must be recognised an essential public health intervention during crises |
title_sort | harm reduction must be recognised an essential public health intervention during crises |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8655710/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34886861 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12954-021-00573-6 |
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