Towards Harm Reduction of Injecting Drug Users: A Priority Action for Preventing HIV in Bangladesh
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Concentrated HIV epidemics have already occurred in IDUs in the neighbouring India, Myanmar and Nepal (WHO, Regional Office South-East Asia, 2008). Due to porous borders with India and Myanmar and central geographical situation between ‘Golden Triangle’(Myanmar, Thailand and Laos) and ‘Golden Crescent’ (Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran), Bangladesh is a potential route of international drugs trafficking, which makes drugs easy available in the country (Department of Narcotics Control (DNC), Ministry Abstract
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