Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: A situational picture of HIV/AIDS and injection drug use in Vinnitsya, Ukraine | Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Research Open Access A situational picture of HIV AIDS and injection drug use in Vinnitsya Ukraine Katerina Barcal1 Joseph E Schumacher 2 Kostyantyn Dumchev4 and Larisa Vasiliyevna Moroz3 Address department of Epidemiology School of Public Health The University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham Alabama USA 2Division of Preventive Medicine Department of Medicine The University of Alabama School of Medicine Birmingham Alabama USA department of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Vinnitsya National Pirogov Memorial Medical University Vinnitsya Ukraine and 4Vinnitsya Regional Narcological Dispensary Vinnitsya Ukraine Email Katerina Barcal - KKacirkova@ Joseph E Schumacher - jschum@ Kostyantyn Dumchev - k_dumchev@ LarisaVasiliyevna Moroz - larisa652002@ Corresponding author Published 15 September 2005 Received 02 December 2004 Accepted 15 September 2005 Harm Reduction Journal 2005 2 16 doi 1477-7517-2-16 This article is available from http content 2 1 16 2005 Barcal et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background New and explosive HIV epidemics are being witnessed in certain countries of Eastern Europe including Ukraine as well as a rapid and dramatic increase in the supply use and negative public health consequences of illicit drugs. A majority of registered HIV cases in Ukraine occur among injection drug users IDUs large numbers of whom report HIV risk behaviors such as needle sharing. The purpose of this study was to apply the World Health Organization s Rapid Assessment and Response on Injection Drug Use IDU-RAR guide to create a situational picture in the Vinnitsya Oblast Ukraine
