Cost–benefit analysis of Canada’s Prison Needle Exchange Program for the prevention of hepatitis C and injection-related infections
Farah Houdroge, Nadine Kronfli, Mark Stoové, Nick Scott · 2024
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Farah Houdroge, Nadine Kronfli, Mark Stoove, and Nick Scott weigh costs and gains of needle exchange in Canadian federal prisons in 2024. Clean needle access cuts hepatitis C and other injection-linked infections. A chance-based model ran three paths from 2018 to 2030, no program, current reach, and growth to half of users by 2030.
By 2019 the program ran in 9 of 43 prisons and reached a tenth of users who inject. Each dollar spent is set to save about two dollars in care costs. Growth averts far more infections than the current reach, which backs wider rollout.
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| CREATOR | Farah Houdroge, Nadine Kronfli, Mark Stoové, Nick Scott |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |