HIV, Hepatitis C, and Hepatitis B Infections and Associated Risk Behavior in Injection Drug Users, Kabul, Afghanistan

Behavior of injection drug users increases the risk for an HIV epidemic.

• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Emerging Infectious Diseases

• Publication date

  2007-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Sociology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3201/eid1309.070036PMID 18252103PMCID 2857281
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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