Special Considerations and Clinical Management of HIV-Infected Drug Users
Summary
- Illicit drug use is central to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic and is driving emerging HIV epidemics in the former states of the Soviet Union,[Abdala 2008] other Eastern European countries,[Uusküla 2008] Southeast Asia,[Perngmark 2008; Sharma 2009] South America,[Inciardi 2006; Pechansky 2006] and China[Yao 2009; Gu 2009; Fu 2008]
- Opioid substitution therapies are effective strategies for primary and secondary HIV prevention[Kerr 2004]
- Noninjection drug use may contribute to adverse outcomes in HIV-infected patients, such as increased HIV risk behavior[Bux 1995; Urbina 2004] and suboptimal medication adherence[Colfax 2006; Colfax 2010]
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