Alternate Title
Recommandations de pratiques exemplaires pour les programmes canadiens de réduction des méfaits auprès des personnes qui consomment des drogues et qui sont à risque pour le VIH, le VHC et d'autres méfaits pour la santé.
Note
Issued also in French under the title: Recommandations de pratiques exemplaires pour les programmes canadiens de réduction des méfaits auprès des personnes qui consomment des drogues et qui sont à risque pour le VIH, le VHC et d'autres méfaits pour la santé : Partie 1.
Summary
"There is an urgent, community-identified need to better
inform and implement safer practice recommendations for
people who smoke crack cocaine. In Canada, safer crack cocaine
equipment distribution programs are not as well or
consistently implemented as programs that distribute safer
injection equipment and are completely lacking in many
jurisdictions (Canadian AIDS Society & Canadian Harm Reduction
Network, 2008; Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network,
2007). These programs are often poorly funded and have
been subject to political opposition and controversy as
well (Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, 2008; Ivsins et al.,
2011; Strike et al., 2011). Where possible, harm reduction
programs across Canada have expanded their mandates
to distribute safer crack cocaine smoking supplies. Our
synthesis of evidence on safer crack cocaine smoking equipment
represents a substantially expanded section of best
practice recommendations.
We developed this set of recommendations for service providers,
managers and policy makers who deliver harm reduction
programs for people who use drugs and are at risk
for HIV, HCV, HBV, and other harms. We hope that these recommendations
will be useful to develop, review, redesign,
and evaluate your programs.
Based on the principles of community-based research, our
project arose from a community-identified need. From inception
to dissemination, this project has involved community
members and service providers. Members of the team
joined based on their interest, expertise (i.e., people with
lived experience, service providers, policy makers, and researchers)
and their roles as representatives within their
communities, stakeholder groups and/or regions. We used
a consensus-based process whereby all team members contribute
to the design and implementation of the project."--Page 5.