Agencies revise guidelines for IDU transmissions. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Federal agencies are updating their recommendations for preventing HIV transmission among injection drug users. Reusing and sharing blood-contaminated products play substantial roles in transmitting HIV, hepatitis, and other blood-borne infections, and more than one-third of all new HIV infections are directly or indirectly associated with injection drug use. New recommendations call for increasing substance abuse treatment programs to reduce injection rates, using sterile drug equipment instead of sterilizing used equipment with bleach, and adequately cleaning injection sites to prevent local infections. The agencies also recommend that all drug users be provided with information on preventing HIV transmission.

Published by AIDS alert, 1997. The guideline itself is at the source linked here.

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