An Overview of HIV Prevention Interventions for People Who Inject Drugs in Tanzania
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An Overview of HIV Prevention Interventions for People Who Inject Drugs in Tanzania
In the past decade, Tanzania has seen a rapid rise in the number of people who inject drugs (PWID), specifically heroin. While the overall HIV prevalence in Tanzania has declined recently to 5.6%, in 2009, the HIV prevalence among PWID remains alarmingly high at 35%. In this paper, we describe how the Tanzania AIDS Prevention Program (TAPP), Médecins du Monde France (MdM-F), and other organisat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Advances in Preventive Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2090-3480,2090-3499
DOI: 10.1155/2013/183187