Having Ever Injected Drugs Clinical Trial
Official title:
Svenska Häktesprogrammet, Prevention, Risk Behaviour and Infectious Diseases Among IDU.
The purpose of the Swedish Prison Program which started back in 1987 and up until 2009 was
called "The Social Medicine Remand Prison Project" is to target injecting drug users (IDU)
with primary and secondary health interventions with regards to injecting and sexual risk
behaviours and infectious diseases such as hepatitis C and B, HIV and sexually transmitted
infections (STI).
The overall aim is to assess the effect of different prevention efforts on HIV/HCV risk
behaviour and disease outcome among IDUs over time.
Risk behaviour for IDU is sexual risk taking, i.e., sex without a condom, buying or selling sex and injection risk taking, i.e., sharing needle, syringe or paraphernalia. ;