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HIV/AIDS
Findings from F. Emmanuel and co-authors provide new insights into HIV/AIDS
June 16th, 2009
"During a routine surveillance round, an extremely high prevalence of 51.3% was found among injecting drug users (IDUs) in Sargodha, a small town in Pakistan. This sharp increase of HIV among this group warranted an urgent need to explore the factors leading toward this explosion of HIV infection among IDUs at this very location to direct the policy makers in designing preventive activities, especially in the context of HIV prevention," scientists in Islamabad, Pakistan report. "In 2007, 400 current IDUs were recruited through multistage cluster sampling based on mapping studies. Participants provided dried blood spot samples for HIV testing and completed a...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-06-16)
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