Assessing the role of syringe dispensing machines and mobile van outlets in reaching hard-to-reach and high-risk groups of injecting drug users (IDUs): a review

Table 1 Ability of NSP-mobile vans and dispensing machines to reach high-risk and/or hidden IDUs.

Syringe dispensing machines			Mobile vans
Ref.	Location	Reached high-risk and/or hidden IDUs	Ref.	Location	Reached high-risk and/or hidden IDUs
[20]	Vestfold, Norway	Yes	[21]	Paris, France	Yes
[22]	Rotterdam, the Netherlands	Yes	[23]	Paris, France	Yes
[24]	Milan, Italy	Yes	[25]	Geneva, Switzerland	NM
[26]	Sydney, Australia	Yes	[27]	Rome, Italy	Yes
[28]	Berlin, Germany	Yes	[29]	Spain	Yes
[30]	Berlin, Germany	Yes	[31]	Rockville, USA	Yes
[32]	New South Wales, Australia	Yes	[33]	Vancouver, Canada	Yes
[17]	Perth and Adelaide, Australia	Yes, it will*	[34]	Wisconsin, USA	Yes
[35]	Hindelbank, Switzerland	Yes	[36]	Baltimore, USA	Yes
[37]	Realta, Switzerland	Yes	[38]	Sicily, Italy	Yes
[39]	Marseille, France	Yes	[8]	Baltimore, USA	Yes
[40]	Vechta, Germany	Yes	[41]	St. Petersburg, Russia	Yes
[42]	Kalgoorlie, Australia	Yes	[43]	Oslo, Norway	Yes
[9]	Bremen, Germany	NM	[44]	Sofia, Bulgaria	Yes
[45]	Marseille, France	Yes	[46]	Vancouver, Canada	Yes
[47]	Lichtenberg, Lehrter Strasse, Germany	Yes	[48]	Madrid, Valencia and some other places of Spain	Yes
[49]	Hamburg-Vierlande, Germany	NM	[50]	Vilnius, Lithuania	Yes
			[51]	New Heaven, CT, USA	Yes
[52]	Canberra, Australia	Yes	[53]	Melbourne, Australia	Yes

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