Responding to the public health consequences of the Ukraine crisis: An opportunity for global health diplomacy

Journal of the International AIDS Society

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Mackey, Tim K ^a,b,c   Strathdee, Steffanie A ^b  

^a University of California at San Diego   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Global Health Policy Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Foreign affairs; Harm reduction; Health diplomacy; Health policy; International relations; Opioid substitution therapy; Syndemic; Ukrainian conflict

Indexed keywords

CONFLICT; CONSENSUS; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; GLOBAL HEALTH DIPLOMACY; HARM REDUCTION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH HAZARD; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RIGHTS; INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; NOTE; OPIATE SUBSTITUTION TREATMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; UKRAINE; UNITED NATIONS; DIPLOMACY; HEALTH; HIV INFECTIONS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION;

DIPLOMACY; GLOBAL HEALTH; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; UKRAINE;

EID: 84926433765     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7448/IAS.18.1.19410     Document Type: Note

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