Alcohol: The forgotten drug in HIV/AIDS
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 - 09:14
in Health & Medicine
A Comment The Lancet Series on HIV highlights the forgotten drug in the HIV/AIDS epidemic: alcohol. The Comment, by Dr Katherine Fritz, International Center for Research on Women, Washington, DC, USA, and colleagues, says that patterns of hazardous alcohol consumption exist in countries with the worst HIV epidemics, most notably Southern and Eastern Africa.