Injecting drug users in Europe
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It has been estimated that there are now 800,000 active drug injecters living in the European Union. Drug injecting, which causes AIDS, is commonly practised among the drug abusers in this part of the world, where it quickly triggered a full-scale endemic of AIDS, HBV and HCV The various member-countries have responded in different ways. But the rates of infection are still alarmingly high everywhere: they are often above 50%, and in some groups, 90% of the drug abusers have been contaminated with the hepatitis C virus.
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