Social determinants of HIV/HCV co-infection: A case study from people who inject drugs in rural Puerto Rico
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Article history: Received 25 October 2016 Received in revised form 15 January 2017 Accepted 26 January 2017 Available online 30 January 2017 transmission method in Puerto Rico is injection drug use—42% of male HIV cases are attributed to injection drug use, exactly double that of the U.S. as a whole which attributes 21% of male HIV cases to injection drug use. HCV has a prevalence among the general population on the island of close to 2% (Perez, Marrero, Melendez, et al., 2010) but most cases tend to concentrate in PWID where studies have shown a prevalence close to 90% in urban settings and 80% in rural areas (Reyes,
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