HIV risk reduction among injection drug users: Explaining the lack of anticipated outcomes in a community-level controlled comparison study

Evaluation and Program Planning

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 301-313

  Schilling, Robert F ^a   Fernando, Daniel ^b   Fontdevila, Jorge ^c   El Bassel, Nabila ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Assoc Drug Abuse Prev and Treatm   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

AIDS; Community outreach; Drug abuse; Evaluation; HIV

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005677668     PISSN: 01497189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-7189(00)00016-1     Document Type: Article

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