Published in AIDS Weekly, March 13th, 2000
Burma produces approximately 60% of the world's heroin and Laos is the third leading producer. Recent outbreaks of injecting drug use and HIV-1 in Burma, India, China, and Vietnam have been associated with Burmese and Laotian overland heroin trafficking routes.
In this study, M.H. Razak and colleagues analyzed findings from narcotics investigations, molecular epidemiology studies of HIV-1, and epidemiologic and behavioral studies of injecting drug use, to evaluate the roles that the heroin export routes play in the spread of drug use and HIV-1 in south and...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2000-03-13)
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