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Multicenter Study
. 2011 Sep;16(9):1131-3.
doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2011.02806.x. Epub 2011 Jun 14.

Drug use and HIV in West Africa: a neglected epidemic

Gilles Raguin  1 , Annie Lepretre, Idrissa Ba, Ibrahim Ndoye, Abdalla Toufik, Gilles Brucker, Pierre-Marie Girard
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Multicenter Study

Drug use and HIV in West Africa: a neglected epidemic

Gilles Raguin et al. Trop Med Int Health. 2011 Sep.
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Abstract

Injecting drug use is poorly documented in West Africa. HIV prevalence studies are still rare. Recent studies show that drug injection is on the rise. There is an urgent need to take this component of the HIV epidemic into account and to establish adapted intervention strategies.

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