High variability of HIV and HCV seroprevalence and risk behaviours among people who inject drugs: results from a cross-sectional study using respondent-driven sampling in eight German cities (2011–14)

BACKGROUND: People who inject drugs (PWID) are at increased risk of acquiring and transmitting HIV and Hepatitis C (HCV) due to sharing injection paraphernalia and unprotected sex. To generate seroprevalence data on HIV and HCV among PWID and related data on risk behaviour, a multicentre sero- and b...

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Autores principales: Wenz, Benjamin, Nielsen, Stine, Gassowski, Martyna, Santos-Hövener, Claudia, Cai, Wei, Ross, R. Stefan, Bock, Claus-Thomas, Ratsch, Boris-Alexander, Kücherer, Claudia, Bannert, Norbert, Bremer, Viviane, Hamouda, Osamah, Marcus, Ulrich, Zimmermann, Ruth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5011883/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27595567
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3545-4

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5011883/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27595567
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3545-4

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