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MARCH 13, 2018

Despite a Blip, HIV Diagnoses Declining Among IDUs

By Alexander Pahlavi 

BOSTON—Despite a slight blip in 2015, the number of HIV diagnoses for people who inject drugs (PWID) in the United States has declined by 34% from 2010 to 2016, according to a presentation at CROI 2018.

Sheryl B. Lyss, PhD, MPH, an epidemiologist at the CDC, and her colleagues reviewed data from the National HIV Surveillance System. They looked at people who were at least 13 years of age, and their HIV diagnosis was solely attributed to the fact that they were