Treatment and care for injecting drug users with HIV infection: a review of barriers and ways forward

@article{Wolfe2010TreatmentAC,
  title={Treatment and care for injecting drug users with HIV infection: a review of barriers and ways forward},
  author={Daniel Wolfe and M Patrizia Carrieri and Donald S. Shepard},
  journal={The Lancet},
  year={2010},
  volume={376},
  pages={355-366}
}
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