4 results match your criteria: "Global Health Research Center of Central Asia (GHRCCA)[Affiliation]"
More than saving lives: Qualitative findings of the UNODC/WHO Stop Overdose Safely (S-O-S) project.
Int J Drug Policy
February 2022
Alcohol, Drugs and Addictive Behaviours Unit, Department of Mental Health and Substance Use, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1202, Geneva, Switzerland.
Background: The Stop Overdose Safely (S-O-S) initiative-developed in compliance with WHO guidelines-aims to prevent opioid overdose deaths. Under the umbrella of this initiative a multi-country project was implemented in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Ukraine, that involved overdose recognition and response training, including the provision of take-home naloxone (THN). More than 14,000 potential overdose witnesses were trained and more than 16,000 THN kits were distributed across the participating countries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The rapidly growing rates of HIV infection in Kazakhstan are largely driven by injection drug use. The study adapts a family-focused evidence-based HIV and substance use prevention intervention for at-risk adolescents from communities in Almaty that have been greatly affected by heroin trade and use.
Methods: This NIDA-funded pilot feasibility trial included 181 at-risk adolescents (ages 14-17) recruited through local schools and 181 of their parents or other adult family members.
Factors associated with self-rated health among migrant workers: results from a population-based cross-sectional study in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Int J Public Health
June 2017
School of Social Work, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Objectives: To determine factors associated with SRH among migrant workers in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Methods: In 2007, 805 vendors were screened. Approximately half were eligible (n =450), defined as at least 18 years old, a worker/owner in a randomly selected stall, having traveled 2 + hours outside of Almaty within the past year, and being an internal/external migrant.
The influence of family violence and child marriage on unmet need for family planning in Jordan.
J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care
April 2017
Professor, Center on Gender Equity and Health; Division of Global Public Health, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Article Synopsis
- Some women have unmet needs for contraception, especially if they've experienced violence from a partner or family members.
- The study looked at data from Jordan to see how this unmet need was related to women's age when they got married (under 18 or 18+).
- Results showed that women married as kids who faced both partner and family violence were much more likely to need contraception compared to those who only faced partner violence, suggesting laws against child marriage should be stronger and that healthcare providers should check for violence to help women.