A success story: HIV prevention for injection drug users in Rhode Island

Substance Abuse: Treatment, Prevention, and Policy

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Beckwith, Curt G ^a   Moreira, Carla C ^a   Aboshady, Hesham M ^a,b   Zaller, Nickolas ^a   Rich, Josiah D ^a   Flanigan, Timothy P ^a  

^a MIRIAM HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG USE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UNITED STATES;

CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; DRUG USERS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHODE ISLAND; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 34248343367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1747597X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1747-597X-1-34     Document Type: Article

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