Transitions from injection-drug-use-concentrated to self-sustaining heterosexual HIV epidemics: patterns in the international data.

Injecting drug use continues to be a primary driver of HIV epidemics in many parts of the world. Many people who inject drugs (PWID) are sexually active, so it is possible that high-seroprevalence HIV epidemics among PWID may initiate self-sustaining heterosexual transmission epidemics.Fourteen coun...

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Main Authors: Don C Des Jarlais, Jonathan P Feelemyer, Shilpa N Modi, Kamyar Arasteh, Bradley M Mathers, Louisa Degenhardt, Holly Hagan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3291614?pdf=render