![]() “Obviously, viruses don’t require passports to spread and walls don’t keep out infectious disease. “They are fueled by undiminished drug tourism - people in the United States traveling to Mexico, often for extended periods, to buy and use cheaper, more accessible drugs,” Strathdee said. What does California’s new COVID-19 sick pay provide? “These rising rates occurred during a period when the U.S.-Mexico border was closed to nonessential travel,” said Steffanie Strathdee, associate dean of Global Health Sciences, referring to the period between March 2020 and November 2021. The HIV incidence rate for people using drugs in San Diego who cross the border to purchase drugs was found to be lower, at 2.77 per 100 P-Y, but still high compared to the HIV incidence rate among drug users who do not cross the border - for whom the HIV incidence rate was zero. Specifically, the researchers found that the HIV incidence rate among people who use drugs in Tijuana had risen to an unprecedented 11 per 100 person- years - a statistical time measure that roughly translates to 11% per year. SAN DIEGO (CNS) – So-called “drug tourism” may be fueling a new HIV outbreak in Tijuana, unabated by the closure of the international border due to the COVID-19 pandemic, UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers announced Friday at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infection. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. ![]()
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