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Injecting Drugs Threatens India's AIDS Fight

From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

November 13, 2008

UNAIDS today warned that HIV infections will spread like a "bushfire" in pockets of India unless the country strongly supports prevention efforts among injection drug users. India has an estimated 200,000 IDUs, and HIV prevalence among them is estimated at more than 10 percent. IDUs are concentrated particularly in the remote northeast region close to the opium-producing Golden Triangle. "If we don't prevent new infections in new emerging populations like injecting drug users, it can go up as bushfires," said Peter Piot, executive director of UNAIDS. "Drug use is moving a bit everywhere, we can see it in Bihar, [Uttar Pradesh] and in Kashmir, it is kind of moving across the northern part of the country."

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Adapted from:
Reuters
11.13.2008; Bappa Majumdar

This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update. Visit the CDC's website to find out more about their activities, publications and services.

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