Continued high prevalence of HIV, HBV and HCV among injecting and noninjecting drug users in Italy

• Main Authors: Laura Camoni (Author), Vincenza Regine (Author), Maria Cristina Salfa (Author), Giovanni Nicoletti (Author), Pietro Canuzzi (Author), Natalia Magliocchetti (Author), Giovanni Rezza (Author), Barbara Suligoi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 2010-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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We estimated the prevalence of HIV, HBV and HCV infections among injecting and non-injecting drug users treated within public drug-treatment centres in Italy to determine the correlates of infection. In the sample of 1330 drug users, the prevalence of HIV was 14.4% among drug injectors and 1.6% amon...