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Profile and characteristics of NSP first time visitors in Estonia and a general DRID
update
Maris Salekešin
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Needle and syringe programmesin Estonia
•First program 1997
•NSPs run by NGOs
•Coordinated, financed and monitored by NIHD
•Coverage of needle/syringe exchange points has increased past 13 years (13 points in 2002 to 37 points in 2015)
•14 inpatient, 23 outreach
•Located in capital area (Tallinn, Maardu), Central-Estonia (Tapa, Paide) and North-East Estonia
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NSP visits
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Number of distributed syringes and condoms (NIHD)
344.6 needles per visitor in 2015 (16.5 needles per visit)
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Syringe exchange database
•Has been operating since 2007
•Working tool for service providers and routine monitoring system for NIHD, since 01.07.2014
- web-based service reporting system
- web-based electronic client monitoring form for service providers personnel
- web-based questionnaires (for new and repeat clients, with reminders)
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NSP first time visitor (FTV) profile (1)
• 2015 in total 776 FTV: 348 Eastern part, 419 capital region, 9 other regions
• Questionnaires are filled among 43% (n=337) of FTV
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NSP first time visitor (FTV) profile (2)
•Mean age 29 (range 16-55)
•35% 18-24 y/o
•72% male, 28% female
•Mainly russian speaking (88%)
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RDS study, mean age**inclusion criteria was being 18 or older
Mean age was 34 years (range 18 to 61 years)
Females were slightly younger than males (32 years versus 35 years)
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2005 Tallinn 2007 Tallinn 2007 Kohtla-Järve
2009 Tallinn 2010 Narva 2012 Kohtla-Järve
2013 Tallinn 2014 Narva
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Mean age
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NSP first time visitor (FTV) profile (3)
• Main sources for clean syringes (last 4 weeks): 49% from other injecting drug users; 39% pharmacy
• 36% polydrugusers (injecting and other administration routes), mainly cannabis
• 32% never HIV tested
• 29% used every time condom with occasional partner
• 26% of respondents self-reported life-time non-fatal overdose experience
• 33% received psychological counselling during their life
• 15% received methadone therapy during their life
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Injecting career 2 years and less (%) RDS VS NSP
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RDS (%)
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NSP FTV(%)
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RDS (years)NSP FTV(years)
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Median duration of injecting drug use RDS VS NSP
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RDS (%) NSP FTV (%)
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Sharing of used syringes (last 4 weeks):
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NSP FTV: main drug injected in last 4 weeks
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pheta
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2013 2014 2015
Capital region
Eastern part
%
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RDS: main drug injected in last 4 weeks
The main drugs injected during last four weeks were amphetamine(63%, n=204) and fentanyl (27%, n=88)
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Newly diagnosed HIV cases in AIDS CounsellingCenters by mode of transmission, 2009–2015 (NIHD)
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Hepatitis
• The incidence rate of acute hepatitis B has decreased from 1.2 per 100,000 population (n=16) in 2011 to 0.5 per 100,000 population (n=6) in2015.
• The incidence rate of acute hepatitis C has decreased from 1.3 per 100,000 population (n=17) in 2011 to 0.8 per 100,000 population (n=10) in 2015
• HCV antibody prevalence among PWID ranges from 61 to 94% (61% in 2014 RDS study)
• HBsAg prevalence from 3 to 22% (22% in 2014 RDS study)
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TB incident cases and relapses, and HIV-infected TB cases (National tuberculosisregistry)
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Thank you