UN cares Drugs and alcohol

http://www.uncares.org/UNAIDS2/other_issues/drugs_and_alcohol.shtml

 

Although alcohol and non-injected drugs do not directly expose you to another person’s blood, they can impair your judgment and cause you to take risks (especially during sex) that you might not otherwise take.

Videos

• Video: Preventing the Spread of HIV Through Injection Drug Use
• Video: Injection Drug Use and HIV Prevention
• Video: Crystal Methamphetamine and HIV: The Connection

More Information

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• Drugs and Alcohol: Use or Chemical Dependence?
  This Web site gives information about the relationship of drugs, alcohol, and tobacco to HIV and provides suggestions for people who wish to stop using any of these substances.
• Injection Drug Use and HIV
  Offers links to a variety of resources.
• Drugs, Alcohol and HIV
  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ guide answers questions about drugs, alcohol and HIV/AIDS and offers resource and contact information.
• Drugs, Alcohol and HIV
  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ guide answers questions about drugs, alcohol and HIV and offers resource and contact information.

n Sub-Saharan Africa, teenage girls are 5 times more likely to be infected than boys, since girls are mostly infected not by boys their own age, but by older men?.