A longitudinal and case-control study of dropout among drug users in methadone maintenance treatment in Haiphong, Vietnam

• Main Authors: Pham Minh Khue (Author), Nguyen Thi Tham (Author), Dinh Thi Thanh Mai (Author), Pham Van Thuc (Author), Vu Minh Thuc (Author), Pham Van Han (Author), Christina Lindan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Vietnam began providing methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) in 2008; as of June 2016, 44,479 persons who inject drugs (PWID) were in treatment in 57 provinces. However, 10-23% of patients were estimated to have dropped out of treatment during the first 2 years. We evaluated dropo...