The long winding road of opioid substitution therapy implementation in South-East Asia: challenges to scale up

In South-East Asia Region (SEAR) there were an estimated 400, 000 - 500,000 people who inject drugs (PWID). HIV prevalence among PWID was commonly 20% and higher in Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, and some regions of India. Opioid substitution therapy (OST) has been implemented as an important HIV pre...

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Main Authors: Reid, G., Higgs, Peter, Sharma, M.
Format: Journal Article
Published: PAGEPress 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36598