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Searching with a thematic focus on HIV and AIDS transmission, prevention and testing, HIV and AIDS, Key populations, HIV and AIDS vulnerable groups, Injecting drug users in India

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    Setting the scene: assessing and planning with harm reduction partners

    International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2013
    Community Action on Harm Reduction (CAHR) is an project spanning China, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Malaysia that aims to expand coverage to more than 230,000 people who inject drugs, their partners and children, with a wide range of services (HIV prevention, treatment and care, sexual and reproductive health and other services) by 2014.
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    At what cost? HIV and human rights consequences of the global "war on drugs"

    Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2009
    A decade after governments worldwide pledged to achieve a 'drug-free world', there is little evidence that the supply or demand of illicit drugs has been reduced. This digital book from the Open Society Institute argues that instead, aggressive drug control policies have led to increased incarceration for minor offenses, human rights violations, and disease.
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    Rapid spread of HIV among injecting drug users in north-eastern states of India

    United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 1993
    This paper, from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), reports on a study that examined the prevalence, risk behaviour and HIV status of intravenous drug users (IDUs) in Northern India. The study found that the majority of IDUs in the region were male and between the ages of 15 and 30, although the number of female IDUs is increasing.
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    Risky sex, addictions, and communicable diseases in India: implications for health, development, and security

    Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2004
    This paper, produced by the Theoretical Division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, looks at alcohol and drug abuse, as well as risky sexual behaviour - seen as the leading risk factors for HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, other STIs - and how they could potentially impact on India’s national stability and security.