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Tufts investigators meet with NIITD
researchers and staff in Hanoi. |
Hanoi, VIETNAM
In June 2004, Vietnam became eligible for funding of HAART treatment expansion through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). HIV infection in Vietnam has spread dramatically, especially among injection drug users (IDUs), fueled by poor social conditions and a trend away from smoking opium to injecting heroin. We are conducting our study in North Vietnam because that is where the HIV epidemic is rapidly emerging directly due to injection drug use, primarily of heroin. The study of 200 HIV-positive (100 stable on HAART for 6 months, and 100 HAART-naïve but likely to start HAART within 6 months) and 100 HIV-negative drug users will take place at the
National Institute of
Infectious and Tropical Diseases (NIITD).
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