Debt burden of Greece and HIV among injecting drug users

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 180-181

  Sarafis, Pavlos ^a   Tsounis, Andreas ^b  

^a Technological Educational Institute of Sterea Ellada   (Greece)

^b Municipality of Thessaloniki OKANA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT; COCAINE;

ADULT; COMMUNITY PROGRAM; CONDOM; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ECONOMIC RECESSION; EPIDEMIC; FINANCIAL DEFICIT; GREECE; HARM REDUCTION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH SERVICE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INJECTION; INJECTION DRUG ABUSE; NOTE; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; SYRINGE;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG USERS; ECONOMIC RECESSION; GREECE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 84894362828     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(14)70017-9     Document Type: Note

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