8.5 HIV prevention in the community: injecting drug users
- 1 September 1996
- journal article
- Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 165 (5) , 266-267
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1996.tb124963.x
Abstract
Increasing HIV transmission among drug users has often been the prelude to a wider epidemic in the community, but not in Australia, where successful preventive strategies have been applied. The weak link in these efforts has been in the prisons, which may become epidemic hotspots.Keywords
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