ISSN 1472-4863. Published by i-Base.
Welcome to the first issue of a quarterly electronic publication from i-Base that focuses on HIV treatment for injecting drug users (IDUs).
This research is rarely given a main priority at HIV meetings, and often when it is presented, includes little that is new (as highlighted in our reports from this year’s Conference on Retroviruses Opportunistic Infections). One of the most important focus is the need to improve access to treatment, and to improve the quality of care for IDUs and coinfected people.
Although a growing body of research shows that drug users are just as able to adhere to and benefit from ARV treatment as HIV-positive people without a history of injecting drug use, in practice a much smaller percentage of IDUs have access to treatment than any other HIV-positive group.
We hope that this publication increases both awareness and access to these issues.
We like to thank all the contributors and advisory board members who helped make this issue possible, particularly Tracy Swan, Adeeba Kamarulzaman and Mauro Guarinieri.
We’d also like to encourage new writers who would like to contribute
to future issues. This can include research reports and overview articles.
If you would like to contribute to future issues or have news to include,
please email:
ARV4IDUs@i-Base.org.uk
To subscribe, please register online at:
http://www.i-base.info/forms/esub.php
ARV4IDUs is produced in English and Russian and is distributed by email and published on the i-Base website.
This project will initially run for four issues and will also include a slide set as a training resource.
ARV4IDUs is produced as a supplement to the i-Base HIV Treatment Bulletin (HTB) and has been supported by a grant from the International Harm Reduction Development Program of the Open Society Institute (www.soros.org).
ARV4IDU as a term was launched by the International Harm Reduction Development programme (IHRD) and Central Eastern European Harm Reduction Network (CEEHRN) for a satellite meeting organised at the World AIDS conference in Bangkok in 2004. CEEHRN host a page on ARV4IDU as a repository for the materials related to this meeting (www.ceehrn.org/ARV4IDUs).
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