International Journal of Drug Policy
Volume 16 , Pages 45-57 , December 2005

Effectiveness of community-based outreach in preventing HIV/AIDS among injecting drug users

  • Richard H. Needle

      Affiliations

    • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention, Global AIDS Program, 1600 Clifton Road, Mailstop E-04, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
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  • Dave Burrows

      Affiliations

    • AIDS Projects Management Group, Level 2, 50 York St Sydney 2000, Australia
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  • Samuel R. Friedman

      Affiliations

    • National Development and Research Institutes, Inc., 71 West 23d Street, New York, NY 10010, USA
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  • Jimmy Dorabjee

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Harm Reduction, Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, P.O. Box 254, Yarra Bend Road, Fairfield, Vic. 3078, Australia
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  • Graziele Touzé

      Affiliations

    • Intercambios Asociacion Civil Av. Corrientes 2548 1a E (1046), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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  • Larissa Badrieva

      Affiliations

    • Project Renewal, 2a Vishnevskogo Street, Kazan 420097, Russia
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  • Jean-Paul C. Grund

      Affiliations

    • Addiction Research Centre (CVO), Keulsekade 223531 JX, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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  • Munirathinam Suresh Kumar

      Affiliations

    • Sahai Trust, 19 Vaidyaram Street, T Nagar, Chennai 600017, India
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  • Luciano Nigro

      Affiliations

    • Unit of Infection Diseases, University of Catania, Via Passo Gravina 185, 95125 Catania, Italy
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  • Greg Manning

      Affiliations

    • Community REACH, Pact, 1200 18th Street NW, Suite 350, Washington DC 20036, USA
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  • Carl Latkin

      Affiliations

    • Social and Behavioural Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg, School of Public Health, 737 Hamptom House, Baltimore, USA

Received 11 January 2005 ,Accepted 6 February 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2005.02.009

International Journal of Drug Policy
Volume 16 , Pages 45-57 , December 2005

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