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| | AEGiS-05CROI: The increasing impact of injecting drug use (IDU) on the AIDS epidemic, New York City (NYC), the first ... |
 | | An IDU associated case (IDU-A) is a case where the risk behavior was IDU or MSM/IDU, or heterosexual sex with an IDU, or birth from a mother with such a risk. |
 | | Results: IDU-A increased from 2,559 of 6,517 (39%) cases diagnosed before 1986, to 11,215 of 22,541 (50%) for 1986-89, 22,774 of 39,655 (57%) for 1990-93, and 14,776 of 25,385 (58%) for 1994-August 1997. |
 | | To reduce IDU-A HIV transmission, prevention strategies must attempt to stop unsafe drug use and sex by the drug user and increase awareness of the risk of sex with an IDU in non-drug users. |
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