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JAMA. 1987;257(8):1047.

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In Reply.—

The aim of our letter was to caution US soldiers in Aviano, Italy, against using local drug-addicted prostitutes, because a high proportion of them (58%) are infected by HIV. The high prevalence of HIV-antibody positivity among drug addicts in Italy is not attributable to sharing needles with US soldiers, since the proportion of seropositivity among this population is high (between 29% and 76%^1,2) in areas of Italy without US bases and the frequency of HIV seropositivity among US soldiers in Europe seems not to exceed 5%.³

The difference between the Italian and the Israeli figures is probably due to different behaviors, in particular the sharing of infected needles, although regional variations in HIV-antibody seropositivity among US intravenous drug abusers have been reported without any clear explanation.^4,5 Prostitution does not constitute an additional risk factor in the prevalence of HIV antibodies among women addicted to intravenous . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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