Improved treatment access requires end to portrayal of drug abusers as already dead
Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 05:14
in Health & Medicine
The Lancet Series on HIV in people who use drugs, published online July 20 and presented at the International AIDS conference in Vienna, reports that in order to improve access to antiretroviral therapy among injecting drug users (IDUs), health providers must focus less on the individual patient's ability to adhere to treatment, and more on conditions of health delivery that create treatment interruptions...