Mortality and HIV transmission among male Vietnamese injection drug users

Addiction

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 583-589

  Quan, Vu Minh ^a   Minh, Nguyen Le ^b   Ha, Tran Viet ^a   Ngoc, Nguyen Phuong ^b   Vu, Pham The ^b   Celentano, David D ^a   Mo, Tran Thi ^a   Go, Vivian F ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Center for Preventive Medicine   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

AIDS; HIV; Mortality; Opioid; Overdose; Substance abuse; Tuberculosis; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTOXICATION; MALE; MORTALITY; OPIATE ADDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TUBERCULOSIS; VIET NAM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; MALE; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; OVERDOSE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; TUBERCULOSIS; VIETNAM;

EID: 79551640349     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.03175.x     Document Type: Article

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