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Effectiveness of community outreach to prevent HIV/AIDS in drug users is examined

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, March 5th, 2006

Researchers examine the effectiveness of community-based outreach in preventing HIV/AIDS among injecting drug users in a recent issue of the International Journal of Drug Policy.

According to their report, "This paper focuses on the evidence for the effectiveness of community-based outreach intervention as one component of a comprehensive HIV prevention model for preventing HIV infection in injecting drug user (IDU)."

"Three empirical questions guided the review of the evidence," said Richard H. Needle at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and collaborators. "This article includes primarily published literature on...

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