title: Study shows Aboriginals who inject drugs are at higher risk for HIV.
abstract: One in five Aboriginal people enrolled in a Vancouver study of people who inject drugs became HIV-positive over a five-year period ending in May 2001. This is twice the rate among non-Aboriginal people in the study.
authors.forename: Kim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Thomas
mesh_terms: D044467:American Indian or Alaska Native; D001955:British Columbia / Q000453:epidemiology; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous / Q000150:complications*