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Potential geographic "hotspots" for drug-injection related transmission of HIV and HCV and for initiation into injecting drug use in New York City, 2011-2015, with implications for the current opioid epidemic in the US

OBJECTIVE: We identified potential geographic “hotspots” for drug-injecting transmission of HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) among persons who inject drugs (PWID) in New York City. The HIV epidemic among PWID is currently in an “end of the epidemic” stage, while HCV is in a continuing, high prevalenc...

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Autores principales: Des Jarlais, D. C., Cooper, H. L. F., Arasteh, K., Feelemyer, J., McKnight, C., Ross, Z.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5875800/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29596464
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194799