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COVID-19 vulnerability among people who use drugs: recommendations for global public health programmes and policies.

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  • This article is available at Digital Scholarship@UNLV: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/ community_health_sciences_fac_articles/401

  • As cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), continue to spread globally, public health experts have warned about the devastating impact this pandemic may have on society’s most vulnerable [1]

  • The prevalence of injection drug use is high, as is prevalence of HIV among people who inject drugs – over 40% in major Russian cities according to recent estimates [5]

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This article is available at Digital Scholarship@UNLV: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/ community_health_sciences_fac_articles/401 COVID-19 vulnerability among people who use drugs: recommendations for global public health programmes and policies Ian W Holloway1,§ , Anne C Spaulding2, Ayako Miyashita Ochoa1, Laura A Randall3, Adrian R King3, The HBOU Study Team 3 and Paula M Frew3

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