Changing profiles of injecting drug users with AIDS in a Hispanic population

Addiction

Volumn 99, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1147-1156

  Amill, Alejandro ^a   Gómez, María De Los A ^a   Fernández, Diana M ^a   Bangdiwala, Shrikant I ^b   Ríos, Eddy ^c   Hunter, Robert F ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c Universidad Central de Caribe   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

AIDS; Intravenous drug (ID) use; Puerto Rico; Trends

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CD4 ANTIGEN; COCAINE; DIAMORPHINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; HEPATITIS C; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PUERTO RICO; SOCIOECONOMICS; THRUSH; TOXOPLASMOSIS; WASTING SYNDROME;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; NEEDLE SHARING; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PREVALENCE; PUERTO RICO; RISK-TAKING; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; WASTING SYNDROME;

EID: 4544279770     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2004.00812.x     Document Type: Article

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