Effectiveness and cost effectiveness of expanding harm reduction and antiretroviral therapy in a mixed HIV epidemic: a modeling analysis for Ukraine.

Injection drug use (IDU) and heterosexual virus transmission both contribute to the growing mixed HIV epidemics in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. In Ukraine-chosen in this study as a representative country-IDU-related risk behaviors cause half of new infections, but few injection drug users (IDUs)...

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Main Authors: Sabina S Alistar, Douglas K Owens, Margaret L Brandeau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-03-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3046988?pdf=render