Transitions from injection-drug-use-concentrated to self-sustaining heterosexual HIV epidemics: patterns in the international data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Injecting drug use continues to be a primary driver of HIV epidemics in many parts of the world. Many people who inject drugs (PWID) are sexually active, so it is possible that high-seroprevalence HIV epidemics among PWID may initiate self-sustaining heterosexual transmission epidemics.

Methods

Fourteen countries that had experienced high seroprevalence (<20%) HIV epidemics among PWID and had reliable data for injection drug use (IDU) and heterosexual cases of HIV or AIDS were identified. Graphs of newly reported HIV or AIDS cases among PWID and heterosexuals were constructed to identify temporal relationships between the two types of epidemics. The year in which newly reported cases among heterosexuals surpassed newly reported cases among PWID, aspects of the epi

SUBMITTER: Des Jarlais DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3291614 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature