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Recovering Thai Drug Users Willing to Test HIV Vaccines

Published in Vaccine Weekly, September 23rd, 1996

In cooperation with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Thai researchers have found a population ideal for testing experimental HIV vaccines.

Among intravenous drug users (IDUs) in Bangkok, Thailand, HIV incidence is 10 percent per year. Some 8,000 of these individuals are currently enrolled in drug-treatment centers managed by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA).

"Willingness to participate in a prospective cohort study is high among the HIV negative IDUs treated at the BMA," said Dwip Kitayaporn of Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.

Kitayaporn spoke during a presentation to the XI...

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