Leave no one behind and that includes people who use drugs

In Senegal, HIV prevalence among people who inject drugs is 9%, well above the 0.5% among the general population. Globally, due to stigma and criminalization, people who inject drugs face a 35 times higher risk of acquiring HIV than people who do not inject drugs.

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