junkies union report

Submitted by David Borden on

Anti retro viral drugs causing harm for the injection drug users in chennai. A large percent of drug users have drug resistant virus strains because of non adherence to ART (Anti Retro-viral Therapy). now the problem is when the Drug users infect others, the fresh infection would be drug resistant. the newly infected will not respond to the ARV .This is noted untill recently among the Injection drug using community in chennai.

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