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