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Family-friendly interventions are needed for women and couples who use drugs so that women are not forced to choose between harm reduction programs and caring for their families.
Women Who Use Drugs and Female Partners of Men Who Use Drugs
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Interventions are needed to inform women who use drugs of harm reduction early in pregnancy and to ensure systematic access to opioid agonist treatment during pregnancy and in hospitals for birth and postpartum. Some studies have shown increased risk adverse health impacts as well as of vertical transmission among women who use drugs which may be mitigated by harm reduction [See %{s:45}]
Women Who Use Drugs and Female Partners of Men Who Use Drugs
1 study
Integrated harm reduction programming is needed for sex workers who use drugs. Site visits and a meeting of service providers, NGOs and people who use drugs found that programs for drug users and sex workers are provided separately, with the result that drug using sex workers are excluded from most services.
Women Who Use Drugs and Female Partners of Men Who Use Drugs
1 study
Adolescent girls who use drugs need risk reduction programs to meet their needs. A study found high rates of HIV risk behaviors among adolescent girls who use drugs, especially those who lived on the streets, as well as high rates of forced sex. Risk behaviors start at early ages (up to 30% reported being under age 15 when they first injected) (UNICEF, 2013; UNESCO, 2012c), yet younger girls who inject drugs are not being reached by existing harm reduction and HIV prevention services. Current guidelines also do not consider how best to reach adolescents (Krug et al., 2015). Age restrictions hinder adolescent access to services (Krug et al., 2015).
Women Who Use Drugs and Female Partners of Men Who Use Drugs
1 study
Efforts are needed to reform laws that criminalize drug use and/or drug possession for personal use and to eliminate compulsory drug detention and instead, provide people who use drugs with access to HIV and health services, including harm reduction, and voluntary, effective evidence-based drug dependency treatment. Detention centers are administered by police, military or other national government public security authorities and operate outside the formal criminal justice system with detainees held without trial or right of appeal; those detained are not allowed to leave voluntarily (Wolfe, 2012). Studies found that female IDU were not given reproductive health services, including PMTCT services in compulsory detention and/or prison settings. Detoxification programs were substandard and ineffective. Despite high rates of HIV, antiretroviral treatment is largely unavailable in compulsory drug detention centers. IDUs who have started antiretroviral treatment should be able to continue treatment in prison with access to medical supervision. [See also %{s:11}]
Advancing Human Rights and Access to Justice for Women and Girls
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