Reversing the Tide: Priorities for HIV/AIDS Prevention in Central Asia
Although the number of reported cases of HIV in Central Asia is still very low, the growth rate of the epidemic (about 500 cases in 2000 to over 12,000 in 2004) is a cause for serious concern. Central Asia lies along the drug routes from Afghanista...
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| Format: | Publication |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/01/6055981/reversing-tide-priorities-hivaids-prevention-central-asia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7354 |
| Summary: | Although the number of reported cases of
HIV in Central Asia is still very low, the growth rate of
the epidemic (about 500 cases in 2000 to over 12,000 in
2004) is a cause for serious concern. Central Asia lies
along the drug routes from Afghanistan to Russia and Western
Europe, and it is estimated that it has half a million drug
users, of which more than half inject drugs. Without
concerted action, we may expect to see the rapid development
of an HIV epidemic concentrated among injecting drug users
over the next four or five years, followed by the spread
among the 15- to 30-year-old population, with sexual
transmission as the predominant mode. This would follow the
pattern of the epidemic in other regional countries such as
Russia, Ukraine, and Moldova. |
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