How Can Transmission Be Prevented?
Comprehensive Harm Reduction education on injection drug use to prevent HIV must provide education on how to prevent transmission through drug-related behavior and sexual activity whichposes significant risk not only to them selves, but to their sexual partners as well. Click to enlarge • For the highest level or prevention, effective substance abuse treatment that helps people stop using drugs not only eliminates the risk of infection from sharing contaminated equipment, but, for many, reduces the risks of engaging in risky behaviors that might result in sexual transmission. • For an injection drug user who cannot or will not stop injecting drugs, using sterile needles and syringes only once along with clean works remains the safest, most effective approach for limiting HIV transmission. • An injection drug user who has never shared syringes will not get HIV from sharing syringe, however needs to be aware that they can still get HIV from sharing pipes, straws when snorting drugs, and
