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Lin Ge1, Dongmin Li1, Peilong Li1
1National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.
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What is already known about this topic?
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It is known that drug users (DUs) was brought into human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) sentinel surveillance as HIV related high-risk group since 1990s with a higher HIV antibody positive rate in the early stage.
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What is added by this report?
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This study not only showed that HIV antibody positive rate had decreased steadily since 2010 and maintained stable in past 4 years, but also showed that the proportion of the new narcotic and the mixed drug users increased since 2010 and HIV antibody positive rate of mixed abuse users increased year by year.
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What are the implications for public health practice?
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Some existing policies and strategies publicity, education and interventions require adjustments since new narcotic drug users contributed to DUs HIV infections. The challenge of HIV infection and transmission among drug users abusing both traditional and new narcotic drugs also require more attention.
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