Prevention and control of HIV/AIDS among injection drug users in Pakistan: A great challenge

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 290-291

  Shah, S A ^b   Altaf, A ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMORPHINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BEHAVIOR; CONDOM; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS C; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INJECTION; PAKISTAN; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; SYRINGE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PAKISTAN; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 4043179761     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

References (5)

1. National Survey on Drug Abuse in Pakistan; Pakistan Narcotics Control Board. Islamabad, 1986; Summary; pp(iii).
2. Altaf A, Shah SA, Memon A. Follow up study to assess and evaluate knowledge, attitude and high risk behaviors and prevalence of HIV, HBV, HCV and Syphilis among IDUs at Burns Road DIC, Karachi. 2003; External report submitted to UNODC.
3. Ghauri AK, Shah SA, Memon A. Follow up study to evaluate change in KABP and Sero-prevalence of HIV, HBV, HCV and Syphilis among IDUs at DIC, Essa Nagri, Karachi. 2003; External report submitted to UNODC.
4. Eicher AD, Crofts N, Benjamin S, et al. A certain fate: spread of HIV among young injecting drug users in Manipur, north-east India. AIDS Care 2000;12:497-504.
5. Shah SA, Altaf A, Mujeeb SA, et al. An outbreak of HIV infection among injection drug users in a small town in Pakistan: potential for national implications. Int J STD AIDS 2004;5:209.