Reducing Sexual Risk Among Injection Drug Users

Topics:
Healthcare Services
Tags:
HIV Virus,
Ingersoll-Rand,
Injection Drug User,
Management,
Risk,
Security,
Strategy
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Overview: Multiple sexual partnerships, sex work, and unprotected intercourse are common among injection drug users (IDUs). IDUs are also more likely to engage in heterosexual anal intercourse, which is associated with greater risk for HIV transmission than is vaginal sex. Thus, reducing IDUs' sexual risk is an important step in stemming the HIV epidemic.

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Format: PDF | Size: 102KB | Date: Jan 2005 | Pages: 3

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