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Risk factors for elevated HIV incidence rates among female injection drug users in Vancouver

Patricia M. Spittal, Kevin J.P. Craib, Evan Wood, Nancy Laliberté, Kathy Li, Mark W. Tyndall, Michael V. O'Shaughnessy and Martin T. Schechter
CMAJ April 02, 2002 166 (7) 894-899;
Patricia M. Spittal
From *the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, and †the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology and ‡the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
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Kevin J.P. Craib
From *the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, and †the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology and ‡the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
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Evan Wood
From *the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, and †the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology and ‡the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
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Nancy Laliberté
From *the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, and †the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology and ‡the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
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Kathy Li
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Mark W. Tyndall
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Michael V. O'Shaughnessy
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Martin T. Schechter
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vol. 166 no. 7 894-899
PubMed 
11949985
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  • Published online April 2, 2002.
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  1. Patricia M. Spittal*†,
  2. Kevin J.P. Craib*†,
  3. Evan Wood*†,
  4. Nancy Laliberté*,
  5. Kathy Li*,
  6. Mark W. Tyndall*†,
  7. Michael V. O'Shaughnessy*‡,
  8. Martin T. Schechter*†
  1. From *the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, and †the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology and ‡the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
  1. Correspondence to:
    Dr. Martin Schechter, Professor and Head, Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, 5804 Fairview Ave., Vancouver BC V6T 1Z3; fax 604 806-9044; martin.schechter@ubc.ca
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