HIV among people who inject drugs in Hungary
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HIV among people who inject drugs in Hungary
BACKGROUND Before 2014 (the year of closure of the two largest needle exchange programs in Hungary, which halved the number of available syringes in the country despite increased injecting risk practices) no HIV was reportedly acquired in Hungary among people who inject drugs (PWIDs) who were not also men who had sex with other men (MSM). In 2014, one and in 2015 two non-MSM PWIDs were newly di...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infectious Diseases of Poverty
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2049-9957
DOI: 10.1186/s40249-017-0360-9