Document 2445
 DOCN  M94A2445
 TI    Monitoring HIV trends in injecting drug users starting treatment.
 DT    9412
 AU    Tor J; Muga R; Egea JM; Rodriguez R; Navio M; Moreno I; Infectious
       Diseases Unit, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol,; Barcelona, Spain.
 SO    Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):302 (abstract no. PC0137). Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94370130
 AB    OBJECTIVE: To analyze the seroepidemiologic trends of HIV infection in
       current intravenous drug users (IDUs) from Barcelona. METHODS: The study
       population was recruited in a detoxification unit from February 1987 to
       October 1993. RESULTS: 650 IDUs (535 men, 115 women) consecutively
       admitted. 98.5% were heroin users. The mean age was 25.8 years and the
       length of addiction was 74.3 months. Prevalence of HIV-Ab (+): 66.3%.
       TABULAR DATA, SEE ABSTRACT VOLUME. CONCLUSIONS: There is a decreasing
       prevalence of HIV infection among current IDUs starting drug treatment.
       However, HIV infection is higher in long-term IDUs who began drug use
       before the transmission mechanisms were established.
 DE    Adult  Female  Human  HIV Infections/EPIDEMIOLOGY/TRANSMISSION  *HIV
       Seroprevalence  Male  Spain/EPIDEMIOLOGY  Substance Abuse,
       Intravenous/*COMPLICATIONS  MEETING ABSTRACT

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