Metropolitan social environments and pre-HAART/HAART era changes in mortality rates (per 10,000 adult residents) among injection drug users living with AIDS.

Metropolitan social environments and pre-HAART/HAART era changes in mortality rates (per 10,000 adult residents) among injection drug users living with AIDS.

Among the largest US metropolitan areas, trends in mortality rates for injection drug users (IDUs) with AIDS vary substantially. Ecosocial, risk environment and dialectical theories suggest many metropolitan areas characteristics that might drive this variation. We assess metropolitan area character...

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Main Authors: Samuel R Friedman, Brooke S West, Enrique R Pouget, H Irene Hall, Jennifer Cantrell, Barbara Tempalski, Sudip Chatterjee, Xiaohong Hu, Hannah L F Cooper, Sandro Galea, Don C Des Jarlais
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3578804?pdf=render

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