Injecting drug users in Bangladesh: prevalence of syphilis, hepatitis, HIV and HIV subtypes.
Injecting drug users (IDU) were enrolled from two detoxification clinics and two needle/syringe exchange programmes (NEP) in central and northwest Bangladesh. Syphilis, hepatitis C and HIV rates were highest in IDU from the NEP of central Bangladesh (23, 66.5 and 1.4%, respectively), whereas current hepatitis B infection rates were highest in IDU from the NEP of northwest Bangladesh (12%). Five HIV strains were subtype C and one E/B. The 32 base pair (bp) deletion of the CCR5 gene was not detected.
Azim
Tasnim
T
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Bogaerts
Jozef
J
Yirrell
David L
DL
Banerjea
Akhil C
AC
Sarker
Mohammed S
MS
Ahmed
Giasuddin
G
Amin
Mian M M
MM
Rahman
Abu S M M
AS
Hussain
Abu M Z
AM
D001459:Bangladesh / Q000453:epidemiology; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015497:HIV-1 / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D018671:Needle-Exchange Programs; D015995:Prevalence; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous / Q000150:complications*; D013587:Syphilis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*