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Drug-related health & prevention issues

Injecting drug use & AIDS in developing countries: determinants & issues for policy consideration

This paper provides a review of literature on injecting drug use and HIV in developing countries.  

It addresses the following:
- Levels of HIV infection among drug users in various countries
- The role of IDUs in introducing HIV into the general population
- The patterns of drug use in developing countries
- Factors influencing the global diffusion of heroin and injecting drug use

 

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