A Comprehensive Approach:
Preventing Blood-Borne Infections Among Injection Drug Users
Acknowledgments
Preventing Blood-borne Infections Among Injection
Drug Users: A Comprehensive Approach reflects the efforts of many health
departments, community-based organizations, researchers, and providers who work
with injection drug users (IDUs). Pulling together the many threads that make
up this technical assistance document was a complex undert a king, and we wish
to acknowledge the valuable help we received from a wide variety of people.
First, we thank the following individuals and their staffs
from the eight state and one city health departments, who assisted us in collecting
info rmation on the availability of various services and interventions for IDUs
and assessing technical assistance needs and priorities. Their insights and
experience helped us refine the elements of the comprehensive approach and develop
the conceptual framework for the document.
Melissa Beaupierre, Florida Department of Health
Casey Blass, Texas Department of Health
Carol Christmyer, Maryland Department of Health and
Mental Hygiene
Brenda Crowder- Gaines, North Carolina Department of
Health and Human Services
John Egan, New York City Department of Health
Maria Favuzzi, New York City Department of Health
Chet Kelly, Illinois Department of Health
Harold Rasmussen, California Department of Health
Mark Schrader, Georgia Department of Health
Candace Vonderwahl, Colorado Department of Health
We also would like to recognize the staff and clients
of the programs featured in Chapter 3. Thank you for sharing your experiences
and expertise with us. Your stories have done much to bring the comprehensive
approach to life.
Brooklyn Treatment Court
Community AIDS Resources and Education (C.A.R.E.)
Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America
Join Together
Health Bridge
HIV/AIDS, TB and Infectious Diseases Cross- Training:
The Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Connection
New York Harm Reduction Educators, Inc. (NYHRE)
Partners in Community Health Project
River Region Human Services AIDS Outreach Program
Taking It to the Streets
The ARRIVE Program of Exponents, Inc.
The Miami Coalition
The Statewide Partnership for HIV Education in Recovery
Environments (SPHERE)
Well-Being Institute
Women and Infants Demonstration Projects
Many experts took time to review sections of the document
and supporting materials. Their thoughtful comments and advice improved the
document immeasurably.
Marcia Andersen, Well-Being Institute
Terje Anderson, National Association of People with
AIDS
Brad Austin, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
Larry Brown, Addiction Research and Treatment Corporation
Scott Burris, Temple University School of Law
Alan Clear, Harm Reduction Coalition
Susan Coyle, National Institute on Drug Abuse
Pam DeCarlo, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University
of California at San Francisco
Glen Fischer, Management Assistance Corporation
Samuel R. Friedman, National Development and Research
Institutes, Inc. Donna Gold, Health Systems Research
Theodore Hammett, Abt Associates, Inc.
Zita Lazzarini, University of Connecticut
Katherine Marconi, Health Resources and Services Administration
David Metzger, University of Pennsylvania/VA Medical
Center
Alan Neaigus, National Development and Research Institutes,
Inc.
Denise Paone, Chemical Dependency Institute, Beth Israel
Medical Center
Tim Purrington, Tapestry Health Systems
Joyce Rivera, St. Anne's Corner of Harm Reduction
Terry Ruefli, New York Harm Reduction Educators, Inc.
Susan Rusche, National Families in Action
Anne Spaulding, Rhode Island Department of Corrections
Marie Sutton, Georgia Department of Health Resources
Peter Whiticar, Hawaii Department of Health
We are particularly indebted to the advice and suggestions
of the following individuals who reviewed the final draft of the entire document:
Jack Stein, National Institute on Drug Abuse
Beth Weinstein, Connecticut Department of Public Health
Linda Wright-De Agüero, CDC
Finally, we wish to acknowledge the efforts of those who
developed and wrote the document. From CDC: T. Stephen Jones, Abu Abdul-Quader,
John E. Anderson, Beth Dillon, Kellie Lartigue, John Miles, Kevin O'Connor,
Ted Pestorius, David Purcell, Michael St. Louis, Jennifer Taussig, and Richard
Wolitski. From AED : Carol Schechter, James Bender, Sharon Novey, Anne
Marie O'Keefe, and Susan Rogers. From Macro International: Billy Jones.
Anne Brown Rodgers was the senior writer and editor. Dan
Banks and the graphic designers at Fathom Creative, Inc. designed and produced
the document.
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