The rise of injecting drug use in east Africa: a case study from Kenya

Studies on injecting drug use in East Africa are reviewed. The existingstudies document the spread of heroin injection in Kenya and Tanzania, both countries where HIV rates are high. No data from Uganda on injecting drug use was found by the authors. A case study of the growth of heroin injection in...

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Autores principales: Beckerleg, Susan, Telfer, Maggie, Hundt, Gillian Lewando
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1236949/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16122382
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7517-2-12
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description Studies on injecting drug use in East Africa are reviewed. The existingstudies document the spread of heroin injection in Kenya and Tanzania, both countries where HIV rates are high. No data from Uganda on injecting drug use was found by the authors. A case study of the growth of heroin injection in a Kenyan coastal town is presented. The need for needle-exchange programmes and other prevention services is discussed.
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spelling pubmed-12369492005-09-29 The rise of injecting drug use in east Africa: a case study from Kenya Beckerleg, Susan Telfer, Maggie Hundt, Gillian Lewando Harm Reduct J Commentary Studies on injecting drug use in East Africa are reviewed. The existingstudies document the spread of heroin injection in Kenya and Tanzania, both countries where HIV rates are high. No data from Uganda on injecting drug use was found by the authors. A case study of the growth of heroin injection in a Kenyan coastal town is presented. The need for needle-exchange programmes and other prevention services is discussed. BioMed Central 2005-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC1236949/ /pubmed/16122382 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7517-2-12 Text en Copyright © 2005 Beckerleg et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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