The cost-effectiveness of HIV preventive measures among injecting drug users in Svetlogorsk, Belarus

Addiction

Volumn 99, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1565-1576

  Kumaranayake, Lilani ^a   Vickerman, Peter ^a   Walker, Damian ^a   Samoshkin, Syiatsaslav ^b   Romantzov, Vladimir ^b   Emelyanova, Zoya ^b   Zviagin, Victor ^b   Watts, Charlotte ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Executive Committee ^*  (Belarus)

Author keywords

Belarus; Cost effectiveness; Eastern Europe; Economic analysis; Harm reduction; HIV prevention; Injecting drug users; Mathematical models; Syringe exchange programmes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; BELARUS; COST; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EASTERN EUROPE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EPIDEMIC; EVALUATION; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HARM REDUCTION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SYRINGE;

BYELARUS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 10844259846     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2004.00899.x     Document Type: Article

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