Association between injection in public places and HIV/HCV risk behavior among people who use drugs in Ukraine

In Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) new HIV infections occur at a high rate among people who inject drugs (PWID) (UNAIDS, 2016), with 51% of new infections being registered among PWID. Moreover, PWID account for most hepatitis C (HCV) cases in EECA (Degenhardt et al., 2016). In Ukraine, a country of 42 million people (StateStatisticsService, 2017), there are estimated 347,000 PWID (Berleva and Sazonova, 2017), with 1.1% estimated prevalence of injection drug use among the adult population (UNODC, 2017).
Source: Drug and Alcohol Dependence - Category: Addiction Authors: Tags: Full length article Source Type: research