LAS VEGAS – Rates of intravenous drug use-associated HIV transmission decreased dramatically among patients at an inner-city community health center in Connecticut, suggesting that routine ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A daily dose of powerful anti-HIV medicine helped cut the risk of infection with the AIDS virus by 49 percent in intravenous drug users in a Bangkok study that showed for the first ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - HIV infections among intravenous drug users in the United States have fallen by half in the past decade, but HIV testing is also down and risky behaviors such as needle-sharing ...

Drug use, especially injection drug use, presents substantial risks for HIV transmission. Understanding the intricate relationship between drug use and HIV infections is paramount for implementing ...

(Reuters Health) - A years-long HIV outbreak among intravenous (IV) drug users in Indiana might have been avoided if the state's top medical and political leaders had acted sooner on early warnings ...

This paper addresses syringe sharing, the primary method of HIV transmission among drug injectors. It argues that this high risk drug injection behavior cannot be adequately understood by relying on ...

A once-a-day pill has been proven to lower the risk of getting HIV among needle-using drug addicts, just as it does among heterosexual couples and men who have sex with men. Among 2,400 injecting drug ...

A previous post reviewed data about drug use among sexual and gender minority people. In addition to its direct health risks, drug use is associated with an increased risk of HIV infection. It might ...

Rima F. Khabbaz, Diana Hartel, Michael Lairmore, C. Robert Horsburgh, Ellie E. Schoenbaum, Beverly Roberts, Trudie M. Hartley, Gerald Friedland The Journal of ...

Health officials are hoping to avoid outbreaks spread through IV drug use. — -- Las Vegas now has a new tool to fight HIV and hepatitis C: vending machines that dispense clean needles. Local ...