Browsing by Subject "Injecting drug users"
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Evaluating e ectiveness of syringe exchange programmes: current issues and future prospects
| Date Issued: 2000Although a large body of international literature has found syringe exchange programmes (SEPs) to be associated with reduced incidence of blood borne pathogens among injection drug users, recent studies have fuelled ... -
HIV-1 binding and neutralizing antibodies of injecting drug users
| Date Issued: 2005Previous studies have demonstrated a stronger seroreactivity against some synthetic peptides responsible for inducing neutralizing antibodies in injecting drug observed for plasma from the S group (15/23) than from the ... -
Retrovirus infections in a sample of injecting drug users in Rio de Janeiro City, Brazil: prevalence of HIV-1 subtypes, and co-infection with HTLV-I/II
| Date Issued: 2001Background :Retrovirus infections among injecting drug users (IDUs), a core at-risk population for both HIV-1 and HTLV-I/II infections in Brazil, were assessed within an ongoing cooperative research. Objecti e : The study ... -
Trends in drug resistance mutations in antiretroviral-naïve intravenous drug users of Rio de Janeiro
| Date Issued: 2006DNA sequencing of a pol gene fragment from drug-naive injecting drug users samples obtained at two time points of the Brazilian AIDS epidemic (Pre-HAART era: 1994 to early 1997, n ¼ 27; postHAART era: 1999–2001, n ¼ 38) ...