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The Global HIV Epidemics Among People Who Inject Drugs
Author(s): Arin Dutta (Author), Andrea Wirtz (Author), Anderson Stanciole (Author), Robert Oelrichs (Author), Iris Semini (Author), Farley Cleghorn (Author)
- Publisher: World Bank Publications
- Publication Date: 15 Dec. 2012
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 135 pages
- ISBN-10: 0821397761
- ISBN-13: 9780821397763
Book Description
People who inject drugs (PWID) are at higher risk for acquiring HIV infection than the general population in many countries. Injecting drug use is present in 148 countries including a wide array of low and middle income countries where HIV incidence is growing in recent years – even as it declines elsewhere. This study was undertaken as the third of a series of three economic analyses examining the global epidemics of HIV/AIDS in vulnerable populations.
