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Reversing the Tide : Priorities for HIV/AIDS Prevention in Central Asia.
Although the number of reported cases of HIV in Central Asia is still very low, the growth rate of the epidemic (about 500 cases in 2000 to over 12,000 in 2004) is a cause for serious concern. Central Asia lies along the drug routes from Afghanistan to Russia and Western Europe, and it is estimated...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
World Bank,
2005.
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| Colección: | World Bank working paper ;
no. 54. World Bank e-Library. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Although the number of reported cases of HIV in Central Asia is still very low, the growth rate of the epidemic (about 500 cases in 2000 to over 12,000 in 2004) is a cause for serious concern. Central Asia lies along the drug routes from Afghanistan to Russia and Western Europe, and it is estimated that it has half a million drug users, of which more than half inject drugs. Without concerted action, we may expect to see the rapid development of an HIV epidemic concentrated among injecting drug users over the next four or five years, followed by the spread among the 15- to 30-year-old populatio. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xx, 186 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780821362303 0821362305 0821362313 9780821362310 6610168849 9786610168842 1280168846 9781280168840 |