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Behavioural harm reduction interventions to reduce HIV risk outcomes in crack/cocaine users
Summary of the evidence
A narrative review (Fischer et al., 2015), without meta-analysis, concluded that, despite the fairly substantive body of largely controlled studies, there is:
- mixed and short-term evidence, so not conclusive, on the effectiveness of targeted behavioural harm reduction measures, eg. peer-delivered intervention (‘EachOneTea-chOne’; EOTO), enhanced peer-delivered HIV education interventions, standard HIV prevention programs.
