Methadone Maintenance Therapy in Vietnam: An Overview and Scaling-Up Plan

Vietnam is among the countries with the highest rate of HIV transmission through injecting drug users. HIV prevalence among injecting drug users is 20% and up to 50% in many provinces. An estimated number of drug users in the country by the end of 2011 were 171,000 in which the most common is heroin...

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Main Authors: Tam T. M. Nguyen, Long T. Nguyen, Manh D. Pham, Hoang H. Vu, Kevin P. Mulvey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:Advances in Preventive Medicine
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/732484