A Comprehensive Approach:
Preventing Blood-Borne Infections Among Injection Drug Users
Chapter1, Section 3:
Conclusion
Today, a major force behind the epidemic of HIV and other
blood-borne illnesses is infections among IDUs, their sex partners, and their
children. IDUs engage in a number of drug-use and sexual practices that significantly
increase their risk of contracting HIV and hepatitis and of passing them on
to others. The next chapter of this document further describes the problem facing
programs and professionals as they address the complex prevention needs of IDUs:
the environment of stigma and bias-the "junkiephobia"-in which many IDUs live
and the policy, legal, and service provision climate that has emerged from these
attitudes.
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