The acceptance of a strategy for decreasing the risk of contracting an HIV infection among drug abusers
Nosov, N.N.; Tarasov, V.K.
Zhurnal Mikrobiologii Epidemiologii i Immunobiologii 1: 96-97
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 0372-9311 PMID: 10096223 Document Number: 510352
The narcotization level of the country is sufficiently high. According to some expert evaluations, the number of drug users varies between 2-4 million persons. Of these, about 100,000 are registered in narcotics service of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and about 250,000 are registered in the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. The main annual increase in drug users is given by unemployed young people and students (more than 15% of them are minors). An important task standing at present before the specialists of the service responsible for the prophylaxis of HIV infection is the steady spread of information among executive and legislative authorities, as well as the preparation of public opinion, on the necessity for the state to choose and accept the optimum variant of the strategy for the prophylaxis of HIV infection among drug users.