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HIV- and hepatitis C-related risk behaviors among people who inject drugs in Uganda: implications for policy and programming

BACKGROUND: There is a dearth of evidence on injecting drug use and associated HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections in Uganda. As such, policy and programming for people who inject drugs (PWID) is limited due to scarcity of epidemiological data. We therefore conducted this study to assess the...

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Autores principales:	Baluku, Matayo, Wamala, Twaibu, Muhangi, Denis
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2019
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6724292/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31481086 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12954-019-0324-4

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