The opioid epidemic. A new challenge for AIDS (spanish version)

Intravenous drug use was the commonest means of contagion of HIV and thus of AIDS in Spain from the outbreak of the epidemic until 2010, although this had become a minority form of transmission in recent years. Hence, in 2015 there were 81 cases of AIDS in Persons who Inject Drugs (PID), in comparison with 205 by heterosexual transmission, 198 in Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) and 11 in the “others/N.A.” group. If on the other hand we observe the figures for newly diagnosed persons infected that same year, PID represent only 2.8% of the total in comparison with 53.6% for MSM, 25.4% heterosexual transmission (HT) and 17.6% in the “no answer” group.