Interventions with injection drug users in Ukraine
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Interventions with injection drug users in Ukraine.
AIMS To assess the effectiveness of a brief human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing and counseling intervention compared to a more time-consuming and expensive street-based intervention with injection drug users (IDUs). DESIGN Cross-over experimental design in which 900 IDUs were recruited, followed by a 'wash-out' period with no recruitment, a reversal of intervention assignment areas and...
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عنوان ژورنال: Addiction
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0965-2140,1360-0443
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2009.02660.x