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. 2002 Jan 4;16(1):121-3.
doi: 10.1097/00002030-200201040-00015.

Injecting drug users in Bangladesh: prevalence of syphilis, hepatitis, HIV and HIV subtypes

Tasnim Azim  1 , Jozef Bogaerts, David L Yirrell, Akhil C Banerjea, Mohammed S Sarker, Giasuddin Ahmed, Mian M M Amin, Abu S M M Rahman, Abu M Z Hussain
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Injecting drug users in Bangladesh: prevalence of syphilis, hepatitis, HIV and HIV subtypes

Tasnim Azim et al. AIDS. .

Abstract

Injecting drug users (IDU) were enrolled from two detoxification clinics and two needle/syringe exchange programmes (NEP) in central and northwest Bangladesh. Syphilis, hepatitis C and HIV rates were highest in IDU from the NEP of central Bangladesh (23, 66.5 and 1.4%, respectively), whereas current hepatitis B infection rates were highest in IDU from the NEP of northwest Bangladesh (12%). Five HIV strains were subtype C and one E/B. The 32 base pair (bp) deletion of the CCR5 gene was not detected.

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