The long winding road of opioid substitution therapy implementation in South-East Asia: challenges to scale up
The South-East Asia Region contains an estimated 400,000-500,000 people who inject drugs (PWID). HIV prevalence among PWID is commonly 20% or higher in Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar and some regions of India. Opioid substitution therapy (OST) is an important HIV prevention intervention in this part o...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2014-03-01
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Series: | Journal of Public Health Research |
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Online Access: | http://www.jphres.org/index.php/jphres/article/view/204 |