Распределение эпидемий потребления инъекционных наркотиков в Украине
Journal: CyberLeninK (CyberLeninka)
Year: 2011

BACKGROUND. Ukraine is an Eastern European country affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. From the beginning, the key HIV transmission route in Ukraine was parenteral, mostly due to the injection drug use (IDU). It is widely hypothesized that epidemics of IDU and consequently of HIV started in different parts of Ukraine at different points in time, and thus the prognosis of such epidemics may differ. So we aimed to study the distribution of IDU epidemics in time and by region of Ukraine. METHODS. Th