P. Sopelana et al., THE EVOLUTION IN THE PREVALENCE OF HIV-1 INFECTION IN DRUG-ADDICTS INTHE COMMUNITY OF MADRID (SPAIN), Medicina Clinica, 111(7), 1998, pp. 257-258
BACKGROUND: TO evaluate the evolution of the HIV infection in the drug
addicts of Madrid, PATENTS AND METHODS: Data of 2,234 patients that e
ntered for the first ime in a Psychiatric Hospital Detoxication Unit o
f Madrid from October 1985 to december 1996 were recorded. RESULTS: Th
ere was a reduction of the percentage of addicts infected by the HIV (
of the 66 to 25%), also in the IVDUs men (of the 70 to 37,6%), but not
in women. There was an increase in the number of addicts that had nev
er injected drugs (of the 7 to the 45%), CONCLUSIONS: Despite the redu
ction of HIV infection rate in drugs addicts in Madrid, it remains sti
ll very high.