Assessment of barrier severity and willingness to enter opioid agonist treatment among people who inject drugs in Ukraine

Ukraine, a country of 45.5 million people, has the highest HIV prevalence in Europe and is located within Eastern Europe, a region where HIV incidence and mortality continue to increase in the setting of suboptimal HIV prevention and treatment (State Statistics Service of Ukraine, 2017). Previous research based on mathematical modeling has found opioid agonist therapies (OAT) to be the most cost-effective strategy to reduce new HIV infections in Ukraine, while the combination of OAT scale-up and expansion of antiretroviral therapy coverage (ART) is the most effective strategy to reduce new HIV infections (Alistar et al., 2011).
Source: Drug and Alcohol Dependence - Category: Addiction Authors: Tags: Full length article Source Type: research