Health systems and services depend critically on the size, skills and commitment of the health workforce. It is now evident that in many low- and middle-income countries, meeting key Millennium Development Goal targets, specifically those relating to health, requires a significant increase in the numbers ...

Synthesizes findings on the dual challenges of women drug users: greater vulnerability to sexually and injection-transmitted HIV infection and less access to services than men. Makes recommendations on outreach, testing, treatment, care, and policy.