Drug injecting & HIV infection
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780203214015; 9781280020254
Subjects: Intravenous Substance Abuse; HIV Infections; AIDS (Disease); Transmission; Intravenous drug abuse; Adverse effects; Prevention & control; Complications; Prevention; Needle Sharing
Other titles: Drug injecting and HIV infection
Description: This is a comparative international study of drug injecting behaviour and HIV infection based on the World Health Organization's study of 13 cities as disparate as Athens, Bangkok, Glasgow and Rio de Janeiro.
Notes: Title from summary screen (viewed Feb. 15, 2007).

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preliminaries; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Global Perspectives on Drug Injecting; Chapter 2 The Social Context of Injectors Risk Behaviour; Chapter 3 Health and Social Consequences of Injecting Drug Use; Chapter 4 Drug Injecting and HIV 1 Infection Major Findings from the Multi City Study; Chapter 5 New Injectors and HIV 1 Risk; Chapter 6 The Structure of Stable Seroprevalence HIV 1 Epidemics among Injecting Drug Users; Chapter 7 Mobility and the Diffusion of Drug Injecting and HIV Infection.