This information sheet walks through some of the basic elements of the Medicare program and provides information to support RWHAP Part B/ADAP staff in adapting program activities to better coordinate with Medicare coverage, including providing premium and cost-sharing assistance for clients.
The Ready, Set, PrEP website provides free PrEP HIV-prevention medications to thousands of people living in the United States, including tribal lands and territories that qualify.
Criminalization as a Determinant of Public Health provides an overview of criminalization, impacts on public health, and the importance of public health practitioners to learn more about criminalization.
This video discusses how any new prisoner to the country’s 17 penitentiaries sees a psychiatrist, a doctor and if needed is offered to join a treatment programme. Comprehensive harm reduction services not only include drug dependence treatment but also needle syringe exchange and HIV testing and...
This factsheet discusses how it is estimated that on any given day, there are at around 11 million people in prison. Prisons and other closed settings have a high prevalence of HIV, hepatitis B and C and tuberculosis (TB) infections.
This video discusses how Daouda Diouf comes daily to the Fann Hospital compound daily in Dakar, Senegal. He is one of 250 people enrolled in CEPIAD’s opioid substitution therapy programme (OST). OST is a globally recognized intervention to reduce injecting behaviors that put people who inject drugs...
This quick guide created for clinicians discusses injectable HIV PrEP.
Anti-Criminalization for Public Health Strategies highlights strategies that health departments and other public health agencies serving people who use drugs, engage in sex work, or who otherwise face increased health risks by being marginalized and criminalized are utilizing to push back on...
Abolition vs. Reform explores the differences between abolition-focused and reform-focused anti-criminalization work in health departments and other public health agencies serving people who use drugs, engage in sex work, or who otherwise face increased health risks due to marginalization.
This guide has been written collaboratively by people with lived experience of substance use, nursing students, harm reductionists, and medical professionals to address medical issues that may affect people who use drugs.
