“Caballo”: risk environments, drug sharing and the emergence of a hepatitis C virus epidemic among people who inject drugs in Puerto Rico
Abstract Background Sharing drug injection equipment has been associated with the transmission of HCV among PWID through blood contained in the cooker and cotton used to prepare and divide up the drug solution. While epidemiologists often subsume this practice under the sharing of “ancillary equipme...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2020-10-01
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| Series: | Harm Reduction Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12954-020-00421-z |