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Implementing methadone maintenance treatment in prisons in Malaysia

PROBLEM: In Malaysia, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is highly concentrated among people who inject opioids. For this reason, the country undertook a three-phase roll-out of a methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) programme. In Phase 3, described in this paper, MMT was implemented with...

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Main Authors:	Jeffrey A Wickersham (Author), Ruthanne Marcus (Author), Adeeba Kamarulzaman (Author), Muhammad Muhsin Zahari (Author), Frederick L Altice (Author)
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Published:	The World Health Organization, 2013-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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