HIV among People Who Inject Drugs in the Middle East and North Africa: Systematic Review and Data Synthesis

Laith Abu-Raddad and colleagues assess the current state of knowledge of the HIV epidemic among people who inject drugs in the Middle East and North Africa. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  PLoS Medicine

• Publication date

  2014-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Sociology

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  DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001663PMID 24937136PMCID 4061009
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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