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IJE Advance Access originally published online on January 13, 2005
International Journal of Epidemiology 2005 34(1):158-159; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh395
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IJE vol.34 no.1 © International Epidemiological Association 2005; all rights reserved.

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Commentary: Targeting HIV interventions to the most at risk—hindsight is 20/20

Steffanie A Strathdee

International Health and Cross-Cultural Medicine, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, 9500 Gilman Drive, Ash Building, Room 118, Mailstop 0622, San Diego, CA, USA. E-mail: sstrathdee@ucsd.edu

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At a time when resources for HIV/AIDS prevention in most countries are stretched painfully thin, the paper by Wood et al.1 helps address the quintessential question of how to target those most at risk. In the late 1990s, reports of the Vancouver HIV outbreak among injection drug users (IDUs) documented one of the highest HIV incidence rates in the western hemisphere, peaking at nearly 20 per 100 person years.2 The causal and non-causal factors surrounding this outbreak have been the subject of much debate.3 In . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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