An overview of social responses to AIDS, characterized by high levels of stigma,
discrimination central to the global AIDS challenge, as related to human dignity is described …

Epidemiologic understanding of the HIV pandemic has been greatly faci. litated by the
development of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique to amplify HIV nucleic acid …

Public discourses on health increasingly emphasise the environment. While harm reduction
has developed in parallel with the new public health movement, and both seek to encourage …

There is increasing appreciation of the need to understand how social and structural factors
shape HIV risk. Drawing on a review of recently published literature, we seek to describe the …

HIV prevalence worldwide among people who inject drugs (PWID) is around 19%. Harm
reduction for PWID includes needle-syringe programs (NSPs) and opioid substitution …

Objectives Burma produces approximately 60% of the world's heroin, Laos is the third
leading producer. Recent outbreaks of injecting drug use and HIV-1 in Burma, India, China …

We undertook a qualitative study to explore the micro-environment of drug injecting, risk
reduction and syringe exchange practices among injecting drug users (IDUs) in Togliatti …

A retrospective study was conducted on 134 HIV-infected females evaluated at an HIV/AIDS
centre in south India to characterize their socio-demographics, HIV risk factors and initial …

This paper assesses policy development, service changes and trends in HIV infection and
risk behaviour among injecting drug users (IDUs) in the United Kingdom. In 1986, the UK …

Aims. We review recent trends in HIV associated with injecting drug use (IDU) in the Newly
Independent States (NIS) in eastern Europe, including Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine …