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. 1990 Dec;80(12):1507–1509. doi: 10.2105/ajph.80.12.1507

HIV seroprevalence among male IVDUs in Houston, Texas.

M L Williams
PMCID: PMC1405124  PMID: 2135633

Abstract

HIV seroprevalence was 8.4 percent in a sample of 921 heterosexual male intravenous drug users in Houston, Texas who were not in drug treatment at the time of the study. Males who were Black, injected drugs daily, or had a history of syphilis had greater odds of being HIV positive than participants without those characteristics.

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