Access to Healthcare and Harm Reduction Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic for People Who Use Drugs

M J Stowe1, Tanya Calvey, Florian Scheibein

  • 1Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa (MJS); School of Anatomical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (TC); School of Health Sciences, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland (FS); State Drug Dependence Treatment centre, Institute of Mental Health, Pt BDS University of health Sciences, Rohtak, India (SA); State Drug Dependence Treatment centre, Ain Shams University, Egypt (NAS); Department of Psychiatry, Teine Keijinkai Hospital, Japan (TS); Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa (LD); Drug De-addiction and Treatment Centre and Department of Psychiatry, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India (AG); Department of Psychological Medicine, University Malaya Centre of Addiction Sciences (UMCAS), Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia (AY); Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand (WRA); Department of Mental Health and Addictions, Waikato District Health Board (WDHB), Hamilton, New Zealand (RV); Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia-Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Indonesia (KS); Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Nepal (BS); Department of Social and Community Health, School of Population Health, The University of Auckland. Auckland, New Zealand (RR); Centre for Addiction Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru, India (VLN); Center for Treatment of Drug Addiction, University Psychiatric Clinic Ljubljana, Slovenia (MD); AddiPsy, Lyon, France (EP); Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Makerere University, Uganda (JLGO); Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Tribhuvan University Teaching hospital, Nepal (SBP); Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Sidi Mohamed ben Abdellah University of Fez, Morocco (SB); ASL 4 Teramo, Department of Territorial Services, Services for Addictions (SerD), Italy (PG); Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (NM).

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