Intervention Packages to Reduce the Impact of HIV and HCV Infections Among People Who Inject Drugs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: A Modeling and Cost-effectiveness Study

• Published in: Open forum infectious diseases Vol. 5; no. 3; p. ofy040
• Main Authors: Mabileau, Guillaume, Scutelniciuc, Otilia, Tsereteli, Maia, Konorazov, Ivan, Yelizaryeva, Alla, Popovici, Svetlana, Saifuddin, Karimov, Losina, Elena, Manova, Manoela, Saldanha, Vinay, Malkin, Jean-Elie, Yazdanpanah, Yazdan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Oxford University Press 01.03.2018
• Subjects: Major; cost-effectiveness; Eastern Europe & Central Asia; HIV; hepatitis C; people who inject drugs

We evaluated the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions targeting hepatitis C virus (HCV) and HIV infections among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Eastern Europe/Central Asia. We specifically considered the needle-syringe program (NSP), opioid substitution therapy (OST), HCV and HIV...