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Volume 21, Issue 6 , Pages 507-510 , November 2010

Correlates of sharing injection equipment among male injecting drug users in Kathmandu, Nepal

Krishna C. Poudel
- Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
- Corresponding author. Tel.: +81 3 5841 3698; fax: +81 3 5841 3422.
Kalpana Poudel-Tandukar
- Department of Epidemiology and International Health, Research Institute, International Medical Center of Japan, Japan
Junko Yasuoka
- Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
Anand B. Joshi
- Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
Masamine Jimba
- Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

Received 17 August 2009 ,Revised 14 January 2010 ,Accepted 16 March 2010.

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