Trial reportHealth education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education2014
Community Impact of Pharmacy-Randomized Intervention to Improve Access to Syringes and Services for Injection Drug Users.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Interventions to improve pharmacists' competency in chronic disease management: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.BMC medical education · 2024Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Intervention Studies That Address HIV-Related Stigmas Among US Healthcare Workers and Health Systems: Applying a Theory-Based Ontology to Link Intervention Types, Techniques, and Mechanisms of Action to Potential Effectiveness.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2023Pooled it
- The Role of Pharmacies in the HIV Prevention and Care Continuums: A Systematic Review.AIDS and behavior · 2021Pooled it
- Community pharmacy interventions for health promotion: effects on professional practice and health outcomes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Pharmacy-randomized intervention delivering HIV prevention services during the syringe sale to people who inject drugs in New York City.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2015Trial
- Pharmacy Intervention to Improve HIV Testing Uptake Using a Comprehensive Health Screening Approach.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)Trial
- Evaluation of a Collaborative Practice Agreement Intervention to Improve Access to HIV Prevention Services in Southeastern US Pharmacies: Protocol for a Hybrid Type 1 Effectiveness-Implementation Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- A scoping review of implementation strategies to reduce stigma toward people who use substances in healthcare settings.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2026Article
- Improving Access to HIV Prevention Services in Community Pharmacies in the US Southeast: Protocol for a Hybrid Type 1 Effectiveness-Implementation Study.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Implementation Science of Integrating Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis in Pharmacist-Led Services in the United States.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2024Review
- A longitudinal pathway from ethnic-racial discrimination to sexual risk behaviors among Black women and Latinas: Ethnic-racial identity exploration as a protective factor.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
- Integrating and Disseminating Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Screening and Dispensing for Black Men Who Have Sex With Men in Atlanta, Georgia: Protocol for Community Pharmacies.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- Estimated effect of US state syringe sale policy on source of last-used injection equipment.The International journal on drug policy · 2020Article
- Addressing Disease-Related Stigma During Infectious Disease Outbreaks.Disaster medicine and public health preparedness · 2019Article
- Incidence and prevalence of hepatitis c virus infection among persons who inject drugs in New York City: 2006-2013.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2015Article
- Access to syringes at pharmacies (ASAP): Preliminary impact of a pharmacy-level intervention.Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhAArticle
- Opioid overdose prevention through pharmacy-based naloxone prescription program: Innovations in health care delivery.Substance abuseArticle
- Self-reported participation in voluntary nonprescription syringe sales in California's Central Valley.Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhAArticle
- Pharmacy-based pre-exposure prophylaxis support among pharmacists and men who have sex with men.Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhAArticle
- Examining nonprescription syringe sales in Massachusetts and Rhode Island community pharmacies.Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhAArticle
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Abstract
objectivesIn an effort to reduce HIV transmission among injection drug users (IDUs), New York State deregulated pharmacy syringe sales in 2001 through the Expanded Syringe Access Program by removing the requirement of a prescription. With evidence suggesting pharmacists' ability to expand their public health role, a structural, pharmacy-based intervention was implemented to determine whether expanding pharmacy practice to include provision of HIV risk reduction and social/medical services information during the syringe sale would (a) improve pharmacy staff attitudes toward IDUs (b) increase IDU syringe customers, and (c) increase prescription customer base in New York City neighborhoods with high burden of HIV and illegal drug activity.
methodsPharmacies (n = 88) were randomized into intervention (recruited IDU syringe customers into the study and delivered intervention activities), primary control (recruited IDU syringe customers only) and secondary control (did not recruit IDUs or deliver intervention activities) arms.
resultsPharmacy staff in the intervention versus secondary control pharmacies showed significant decreases in the belief that selling syringes to IDUs causes community loitering.
conclusionsStructural interventions may be optimal approaches for changing normative attitudes about highly stigmatized populations.
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