Sustained increase in the sharing of needles and syringes among drug users in England and Wales

Vivian D. Hope; Pauline A. Rogers; Laura Jordan; Thomas C. Paine; Sharon Barnett; John Parry; O. Nöel Gill

doi:10.1097/00002030-200212060-00022

Sustained increase in the sharing of needles and syringes among drug users in England and Wales

Vivian D. Hope^*, Pauline A. Rogers, Laura Jordan, Thomas C. Paine, Sharon Barnett, John Parry, O. Nöel Gill

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Monitoring injecting drug users risk behaviours is important because changes in these can rapidly increase blood-borne virus transmission rates. In England and Wales needle and syringe sharing in the previous month has been monitored through annual cross-sectional surveys since 1991. After declining in the early 1990s, the proportion sharing increased significantly between 1997 and 2000. This, and an apparent increase in hepatitis B transmission, indicates that injectors are at an increasing risk of infection with blood-borne viruses.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2494-2496
Number of pages	3
Journal	AIDS
Volume	16
Issue number	18
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/00002030-200212060-00022
Publication status	Published - 6 Dec 2002

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