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Volume 336:1035-1036 April 3, 1997 Number 14
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Preventing HIV Transmission: The role of sterile needles and bleach

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Edited by Jacques Normand, David Vlahov, and Lincoln E. Moses. 334 pp. Washington, D.C., National Academy Press, 1995. $37.95. ISBN 0-309-05296-3.

Most health workers, including many who care for injection-drug users or are involved in programs to prevent transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), do not know the steps used by injection-drug users to prepare and inject illegal drugs. The National Academy of Sciences panel report, Preventing HIV Transmission: The Role of Sterile Needles and Bleach, is an excellent introduction to the world of injection-drug users and can help general readers understand how to prevent the transmission of blood-borne infections from one injection-drug user to another. Because about half of all cases of hepatitis C virus and one third of . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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