Impact of length of injecting career on HIV incidence among people who inject drugs
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impact of needle and syringe program coverage on hiv incidence in people who inject drugs
conclusions we found a large impact due to nsps for reducing the occurance of hiv among active drug injectors who have been provided sufficient needles and syringes. the coverage of nsps needs to be increased to observe such significant impact. results given the output of the model, we found that among the pwid with sufficient coverage of nsps the hiv rate is 1.02%, while those with insufficien...
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عنوان ژورنال: Addictive Behaviors
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0306-4603
DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2016.02.020