AN EMERGING TREND OF METHAMPHETAMINE INJECTION IN IRAN: A CRITICAL TARGET FOR RESEARCH ON BLOOD-BORNE INFECTION DISEASES

摘要

Recently, Iran has faced a rapidly growing HIV/AIDS problem particularly among injecting drug users (IDUs).A study on IDUs who had been admitted at some DICs in Iran revealed that 20.5% were infected with HIV and 43.4% were infected with HCV (1). Studies on drug injection in Iran have been generally oriented toward opioid users (2) and transmission of blood-borne infection diseases (3). In recent years, a new trend of methamphetamine injection is also observed in the community.