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Needle and syringe sharing practices of injecting drug users participating in an outreach HIV prevention program in Tehran, Iran: A cross-sectional study

HIV infection rates have reached epidemic proportions amongst injecting drug users (IDUs) in Iran. Although a number of community-based interventions have being implemented in the country, there is little information on the risk behaviors of IDU participants in these programs. This cross-sectional r...

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Autores principales:	Vazirian, Mohsen, Nassirimanesh, Bijan, Zamani, Saman, Ono-Kihara, Masako, Kihara, Masahiro, Mortazavi Ravari, Shahrzad, Gouya, Mohammad Mehdi
Formato:	Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2005
Materias:	Brief Report
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1266391/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16212655 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7517-2-19

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