The change from intravenous to crack cocaine and its impact on reducing HIV incidence in Brazilian prisons [3]

International Journal of STD and AIDS

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 836-837

  Burattini, Marcelo Nascimento ^a   Strazza, Leila ^a   Paoliello, Antonio Augusto ^a   De Carvalho, Heráclito Barbosa ^a   De Azevedo, Raymundo Soares ^a   Coutinho, Francisco Antonio Bezerra ^a   Massad, Eduardo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BRAZIL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROPREVALENCE; SEX RATIO;

EID: 30944443040     PISSN: 09564624     EISSN: 09564624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/095646205774988136     Document Type: Letter

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