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

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

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.

Risk behaviour for IDU is sexual risk taking, i.e., sex without a condom, buying or selling sex and injection risk taking, i.e., sharing needle, syringe or paraphernalia.

Have you received already used injection equipment from someone last 12 months Have you lent (away) already used injection equipment to someone last 12 months Have you shared solution and/or filter with someone last 12 months Number of people shared needles with last month Number of injections last month Number of Hepatitis C positive Number of HIV positive Number of Hepatitis B positive Number of respondenst positive for sexually transmitted infections

Inclusion Criteria: Defined as an injecting drug user, in the prison and probation service and agree to anonymously participate Exclusion Criteria: Being defined as a non-drug user, non-injecting drug user

Karlsson N, Santacatterina M, Kall K, Hagerstrand M, Wallin S, Berglund T, Ekstrom AM. Risk behaviour determinants among people who inject drugs in Stockholm, Sweden over a 10-year period, from 2002 to 2012. Harm Reduct J. 2017 Aug 16;14(1):57. doi: 10.1186/s12954-017-0184-8.