Estimates are not enough: scaling-up interventions to improve the health of people who inject drugs

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¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Research and Prevention, Public Health Service of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1000CE, Netherlands; Department of Infectious Diseases, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Electronic address: mprins@ggd.amsterdam.nl.
² Department of Family and Emergency Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada; Research Center of the Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Montréal, QC, Canada.

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Maria Prins et al. Lancet Glob Health. 2017 Dec.

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doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(17)30430-8.

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Research and Prevention, Public Health Service of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1000CE, Netherlands; Department of Infectious Diseases, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Electronic address: mprins@ggd.amsterdam.nl.
² Department of Family and Emergency Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada; Research Center of the Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Montréal, QC, Canada.

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