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• They also distribute needle sterilization kits to IV drug users in minority neighborhoods.
• We know she was never an IV drug user.
• Sharing needles among IV drug users is now believed the most frequent means of transmission.
• "IV drug users need to know they're positive for hepatitis C,"
• We have heard rumors, thus far unconfirmed, that he might have been an IV drug user,
• Statistics show new AIDS cases spread by IV drug users rose 196 percent between 1991 and 1994, he said.
• That goes double for IV drug users, the other big risk group, who are mostly minorities and poor.
• Over half of new infections of HIV now occur among IV drug users, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
• The first priority is to increase opportunities for rehabilitation so that IV drug users have the chance to break their addictions.
• *And though the Northeast accounted for 44 percent of the 1995 cases among IV drug users, the South accounted for 29 percent.
• Beyond marijuana, Vancouver estimates that there are as many as 15, 000 IV drug users in British Columbia, most of them in Vancouver.
• *Half of the IV drug users with AIDS in 1995 were black, 25 percent were white and 24 percent were Hispanic, the CDC said.
• "If you want maximum safety of blood supply, you'd want people who are not IV drug users and who are not promiscuous.
• A separate study, also released this week, shows that IV drug users now account for half of the 40, 000 new HIV infections each year.
• And although homosexuals and IV drug users are far more likely to get AIDS than heterosexuals, the threat to the general population does exist, AIDS researchers said.
• Sixty percent said doctors should be able to prescribe needles to IV drug users and 61 percent said drug users should be able to purchase needles from a pharmacy.
• These factors go a long way toward explaining why infection rates among IV drug users have not declined, as they have for some other groups at risk of contracting HIV.
• But it's also obvious that public health officials need to intensify efforts to inform IV drug users in particular of the continuing danger that HIV poses . _ __
• Viruses such as HIV and hepatitis C are prevalent among IV drug users in many countries, mostly due to small groups sharing injection equipment combined with a lack of proper sterilization.
• But there's still a large reservoir of people infected through transfusions before 1992, as well as baby boomers who used IV drugs as young adults and current IV drug users.