EDITORIAL

CONFERENCE REPORTS
18th International Conference to Reduce Drug-Related Harm, 16 May 2007, Warsaw, Poland

• Scaling up ART for people who use drugs: the Brazilian story

CONFERENCE REPORTS:
14th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, 25-28 February 2007, Los Angeles

• IDU-related studies at CROI
• Low rates of HCV treatment among eligible injection drug users
• Effect of HCV and HIV on mortality among injecting drug users
• HIV-positive IDU, co-infected with HCV, are at increased risk of hepatitis related death in the HAART era, compared with IDU with HCV monoinfection
• Long-term effectiveness of isoniazid prophylaxis on TB incidence in a cohort of IDU
• The dynamics of HCV transmission among injection drug users in St. Petersburg
• “Founder effect” among HIV-positive IDU in Karachi, Pakistan

IDU ISSUES IN ASIA

• Challenges to scaling up antiretroviral treatment for injecting drug users in Asia

IDU ISSUES IN AFRICA

• Drug use in Africa: a brief report

OTHER NEWS

• Activism brings attention to drug problems in Indonesia
• UN Secretary General calls for political leadership to improve treatment for drug users
• Drug use and HIV in Nepal: NAP+ raise funds for Ministry of Health to pay for needle exchange

ON THE WEB

• Substance abuse and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa
• HCV News Bulletins

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