title: [The monitoring of the spread of drug abuse as an element in the epidemiological surveillance of socially significant infections].
abstract: The necessity of monitoring the spread of drug addiction in the system of epidemiological surveillance on HIV infection and parenteral virus hepatitides is shown. The results of the epidemiological diagnostics of registered drug addiction are presented. The criteria for the assessment of the epidemiological effectiveness of epidemiological surveillance on drug addiction are determined. As revealed in this study, during the period of 1991-1998 morbidity in drug addiction rose 57-fold in Perm Province, while the number of HIV-infected persons increased 75-fold. Pronounced direct relationship between the number of drug addicts, as well as persons belonging to groups of high risk of developing drug addiction, and the dynamics of morbidity in HIV infection and parenteral virus hepatitides B and C was established.
authors.affiliation: Regional Center for Prevention and Control of AIDS and Infectious Diseases, Medical Academy, Perm, Russia.
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Luzin
authors.forename: I V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Fel'dblium
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Krasnikova
authors.forename: V L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Ostashova
authors.forename: R I
authors.initials: RI
authors.lastname: Vaĭzin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015497:HIV-1; D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D009017:Morbidity / Q000639:trends; D011159:Population Surveillance; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013587:Syphilis / Q000453:epidemiology*