INTRODUCTION Evidence suggests that people who inject drugs often begin their drug use and injecting practices in adolescence, yet there are limited data available on the HIV epidemic and the responses for this population. The comprehensive package of interventions for the prevention, treatment and care of HIV infection among people who inject drugs first laid out in 2009 (revised in 2012) by W...

Injecting drug use is a growing problem in Africa and a growing risk factor for contracting HIV in the region. It is imperative that HIV research includes injecting drug users so that they too are able to benefit from safe and effective behavioural interventions and biomedical HIV prevention and treatment products. This article relates a critical review of the findings of a desk review of previ...

OBJECTIVE To quantify the effect of opiate substitution treatment in relation to HIV transmission among people who inject drugs. DESIGN Systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective published and unpublished observational studies. DATA SOURCES Search of Medline, Embase, PsychINFO, and the Cochrane Library from the earliest year to 2011 without language restriction. REVIEW METHODS We ...

On 12 October 2011, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) published a joint guidance on the prevention and control of infectious diseases among people who inject drugs [1]. The two agencies of the European Union (EU) bring together know-how from the fields of drugs and infections, assess the evidenc...