AEGiS-APPJ: AIDS and Intravenous Drug Use in San Francisco

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AIDS and Intravenous Drug Use in San Francisco

AIDS & Public Policy Journal 3, no. 2 (1988): 37-41
Andrew R. Moss and Richard E. Chaisson

In the AIDS Epidemiology Group at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH), we began to study HIV infection among IVDUs, primarily those in treatment, in 1984. In 1985 we began a testing-and-diversion program, described below, aimed at intervening in the spread of HIV among drug users. On the basis of several years of testing IVDUs and retrospective testing of stored sera (from which the 1983-84 data are derived), we now have a relatively clear picture of the spread of HIV among drug users in San Francisco. Since at least one seropositive IVDU was known in San Francisco in 1978, the data suggest a relatively slow but steady increase in the seropositivity rate in the IVDU treatment program population over the past decade, up to the current rate of 13 percent.
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