A success story: HIV prevention for injection drug users in Rhode Island
Open Access
- 4 December 2006
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy
- Vol. 1 (1) , 1-34
Abstract
New HIV diagnoses related to injection drug use (IDU) have declined in the United States. Access to clean syringes and decreasing HIV transmission among injection drug users have been HIV prevention priorities of the Rhode Island (RI) HIV community. To examine trends in IDU-related new HIV diagnoses in RI, we performed a retrospective analysis of new HIV diagnoses according to HIV risk factor from 1990–2003.Keywords
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