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Finland: Helsinki intravenous drug users in grip of HIV epidemic, support centre says

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Mary Wilson

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31.5 13:01
​YLE NEWS

The Helsinki region is seeing a HIV epidemic among intravenous drug users, support centre Hivpoint said in a press release issued on Wednesday.

Over the past three years, the organisation has detected several dozen HIV infections among intravenous drug users. In the seven years prior to 2020, a total of just six similar cases were found.

The cited increase in infections backs up figures released by Finland's pubic health authority THL late last year, which found that 241 cases were detected in 2022, up from 152 in 2021. ...

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