HIV among injecting drug users: current epidemiology, biologic markers, respondent-driven sampling, and supervised-injection facilities
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Epidemiology of HIV Among Injecting and Non-injecting Drug Users: Current Trends and Implications for Interventions
Injecting drug use is a major driver of HIV infections in Eastern Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States, North Africa, the Middle East, and many parts of Asia and North America. We provide a global overview of the epidemiology of HIV infection among drug users and present current drug use trends that may constitute important epidemic drivers. We describe trends in ethnic disparities am...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1746-630X
DOI: 10.1097/coh.0b013e32832bbc6f