Kim, SW;
Pulkki-Brannstrom, AM;
Skordis-Worrall, J;
(2014)
Comparing the cost effectiveness of harm reduction strategies: a case study of the Ukraine.
Cost Eff Resour Alloc
, 12
p. 25.
10.1186/1478-7547-12-25.
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Abstract
Harm reduction strategies commonly include needle and syringe programmes (NSP), opioid substitution therapy (OST) and interventions combining these two strategies. Despite the proven effectiveness of harm-reduction strategies in reducing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among injecting drug users (IDUs), no study has compared the cost-effectiveness of these interventions, nor the incremental cost effectiveness of combined therapy. Using data from the Global Fund, this study compares the cost-effectiveness of harm reduction strategies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, using the Ukraine as a case study.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Comparing the cost effectiveness of harm reduction strategies: a case study of the Ukraine. |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1478-7547-12-25 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-7547-12-25 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2014 Kim et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
| Keywords: | Cost effectiveness analysis, Global Fund, Harm reduction, Markov Monte Carlo simulation, Needle and syringe programme, Opioid substitution therapy, Ukraine |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1471228 |
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