| high prevalence of blood-borne virus infections and high-risk behaviour among injecting drug users in tallinn, estonia. | the hiv epidemic in estonia is rapidly expanding, and injection drug users (idus) are the major risk group contributing to the expansion. a convenience sample of 159 idus visiting syringe-exchange programmes (seps) was selected to quantify the association of hiv-risk behaviours and blood-borne infections. a high prevalence of hiv, hepatitis b core antibody (hbvcore), hepatitis b surface antigen (hbsag) and hepatitis c virus antibodies (56, 85.1, 21.3, and 96.2%, respectively) was associated with ... | 2007 | 17326862 |