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Volume 21, Issue 2 , Pages 107-109 , March 2010

How much will it cost? Estimation of resource needs and availability for HIV prevention, treatment and care for people who inject drugs in Asia

Anne Bergenstrom
- United Nations Regional Task Force on Injecting Drug Use and HIV/AIDS for Asia and the Pacific, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Regional Centre for East Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand
- Corresponding author at: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Regional Centre for East Asia and the Pacific, United Nations Building, 3rd Floor, Rajdamnern Nok Avenue, Bangkok 10200, Thailand. Tel.: +66 2 288 1439; fax: +66 2 288 1014.
Ross McLeod
- eSYS Development Pty Ltd, Hanoi, Vietnam
Mukta Sharma
- HIV/AIDS Asia Regional Program, Regional Technical Coordination Unit
Fabio Mesquita
- World Health Organization, Regional Office of Western Pacific, Manila, Philippines
Jimmy Dorabjee
- Centre for International Health, Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, Melbourne, Australia
Rifat Atun
- Strategy, Performance and Evaluation, The Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland
Gary Lewis
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Regional Centre for East Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand
J.V.R. Prasada Rao
- Regional Support Team, Asia and the Pacific, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Bangkok, Thailand

Received 18 September 2009 ,Revised 11 November 2009 ,Accepted 12 November 2009.

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