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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Addiction. 2018 Jul 10;113(11):2118–2131. doi: 10.1111/add.14267

Table 2:

Infections averted amongst people who inject drugs and the relative decrease in incidence between 2008 and 2015 for the different scenarios of interventions being scaled-up from 2008. Ranges in brackets are 95% credibility intervals.

Change from 2008 to 2015 compared to
counterfactual
Mean number
of infections
Mean infections
averted (95% CrI)
Mean relative
decrease in incidence
No change (i.e. no intervention scale-up or
decrease in proportion high-risk)
6353
(3450–9728)
N/A 27.4% (17.6−37.0%)
Scale-up of OST and high coverage NSP
only
5337
(3035–8329)
1016 (308−1996) 47.3% (30.0−62.7%)
Scale-up of OST and high coverage NSP plus
decrease in high-risk status
4933
(2714–7767)
1420 (613−2544) 57.9% (41.1−72.3%)
Scale-up of OST and high coverage NSP plus
decrease in high risk status plus increase in
HCV treatment
4861
(2646–7681)
1492 (657−2646) 61.3% (45.1−75.3%)

Projections are means of model fits, with 95% credibility intervals in brackets