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The Swedish Prison Program is an Intervention Prevention Program Targeting Injecting Drug Users Risk Behaviours and Infectious Diseases

NCT02234167 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Last updated 2020-09-17

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Summary

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.

Conditions

  • Having Ever Injected Drugs

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Risk behaviour and infectious diseases

through counselling, testing vaccination

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Public Health Agency of Sweden

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Swedish Prison and Probation Service

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Linkoeping University

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Karolinska Institutet

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2002-04-30
Primary Completion
2013-12-31
Completion
2013-12-31

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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