Health-damaging policing practices among persons who inject drugs in Mexico: Are deported migrants at greater risk?

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Health-damaging policing practices among persons who inject drugs in Mexico: Are deported migrants at greater risk?

8 August 2017

By Miguel Pinedo, Leo Beletsky, Nathan Alamillo, and Victoria D. Ojeda

Evidence-based public health and criminal justice policies aimed at addressing the structurally vulnerable population of persons who inject drugs (PWID) and who are involved in the immigrant enforcement and deportation system are lacking. Policing practices are critical structural determinants of HIV among PWID. PWID in Mexico who have been deported from the US are at elevated risk of HIV.

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