Drug-related infectious diseases in Europe: Update from the EMCDDA Expert Network 2016

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Drug-related infectious diseases in Europe: Update from the EMCDDA Expert Network 2016

29 November 2016
European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)

Tis report provides an update on infectious diseases related to drug use in Europe for the period up to June 2016. It covers the most recent data both on infectious diseases among people who inject drugs in Europe, collected with the EMCDDA Drug-related infectious diseases (DRID) indicator, and on the responses in the area. It includes highlights and new fndings discussed during the DRID indicator’s annual expert meeting, held in Lisbon on 6–8 June 2016. This event ofered a platform for discussion among experts from the 28 EU Member States, Norway and Turkey. EU agency partners and international organisations were also represented. Annual network meetings primarily aim to share and discuss the analysis of national and European data and new developments, and their implications for actions and policy development. It should be noted that as the publication is, in part, based on the presentations to the meeting, some of the information presented here is necessarily preliminary.

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