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Drug Abuse and AIDS Volume 13, Number 5 (February, 1999) |
To underscore the importance of research on prevention of HIV/AIDS in drug-using populations, the publishers of Public Health Reports issued a special supplement in June 1998 focusing on the current status of national and international research on the subject. In the supplement, co-edited by Dr. Richard Needle, chief of NIDA's Community Research Branch (CRB), Dr. Susan Coyle, chief of NIDA's Clinical, Epidemiological, and Applied Sciences Review Branch, and Helen Cesari of CRB, researchers report on interventions that have proven effective in helping drug users change their behaviors and reduce their risk of HIV infection.
The supplement reviews more than a decade of HIV prevention research supported by NIDA. Research reported in the issue indicates that community-based intervention strategies have proved to be effective in averting HIV infection by providing drug-using populations with the means for changing their drug use patterns, needle practices, and sexual behaviors.
Articles highlight seven HIV prevention principles, including the need to:
NIDA made this supplement available to scientists at the 12th World AIDS Conference in Geneva last summer.
NIDA NOTES - Volume 13, Number 5 |
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