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HIV/AIDS
There is a huge amount of research and documentation available on most aspects of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, including documentation on injecting drug use as a risk factor to contract HIV. This connection has been experienced and documented from the early phases of the AIDS pandemic. Alcohol use and drunken behaviour, however, is not at all that well documented as a risk factor to contract HIV or to develop AIDS. This situation is now gradually changing.
An increasing amount of research is being conducted on HIV/AIDS and alcohol, and the connection between the two is coming gradually clearer also from a scientific perspective. In real life the connection has long been experienced by very many, both ordinary people, HIV experts and development workers, but without resulting in too many systematic studies of the phenomenon.
Further information can be found at the following websites:
UNAIDS; Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS