| Title | Estimates of HIV incidence among drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia: continued growth of a rapidly expanding epidemic. |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2011 |
| Authors | Niccolai, Linda M., Sergei V. Verevochkin, Olga V. Toussova, Edward White, Russell Barbour, Andrei P. Kozlov, and Robert Heimer |
| Journal | European journal of public health |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pagination | 613-9 |
| Date Published | 2011 Oct |
| ISSN | 1464-360X |
| Keywords | Adolescent, Adult, Behavior, Addictive, Cohort Studies, Cross-Sectional Studies, Demography, Female, HIV, HIV Infections, Humans, Immunoenzyme Techniques, Incidence, Male, Middle Aged, Retrospective Studies, Russia, Socioeconomic Factors, Substance Abuse, Intravenous, Urban Population, Young Adult |
| Abstract | Russia has one of the world's fastest growing HIV epidemics and it has been largely concentrated among injection drug users (IDU). St Petersburg, Russia's second largest city, is one of the country's regions that has been most affected by the HIV epidemic. To monitor the current epidemic situation, we sought to estimate recent HIV incidence among IDU in St Petersburg. |
| DOI | 10.1093/eurpub/ckq115 |
| Alternate Journal | Eur J Public Health |
