Central Asia: hotspot in the worldwide HIV epidemic.
Central Asia: hotspot in the worldwide HIV epidemic.
C. Thorne,Nina Ferencic,2 Authors,T. Niemiec
2010 · DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(10)70118-3
Lancet. Infectious Diseases (Print) · 102 Citations
TLDR
The HIV epidemic in central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) has accelerated since 2000, largely attributable to escalating injection drug use, reflecting central Asia's geographic position along major drug trafficking routes.