Study highlights risky behavior, lack of care among HIV-infected crack users
Monday, August 4, 2008 - 14:28
in Health & Medicine
Doctors who treat HIV-infected crack users refer to them as "the forgotten population." A study being presented at this week's International AIDS Conference in Mexico City reveals that these patients frequently lack outpatient health care, do not receive life-saving antiretroviral therapy and continue to engage in risky sexual behavior that likely contributes to HIV transmission.