Nima Ghalekhani, PhD, is a Research vice chancellor of HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran. Ali Mirzazadeh, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA, and HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran. Fatemeh Tavakoli, MSc, is a PhD Candidate, who is a Research Assistant at HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran. Ghazal Mousavian MSc, is a PhD Candidate, who is a Research Assistant at HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran. Mehrdad Kherzi, MSc, is a PhD Candidate, who is a Research Assistant at HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran. Omid Zamani, MD, MPH, is a Research assistant at HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran. Soheil Mehmandoost, MSc, is a PhD Candidate, who is a Research Assistant at HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran. Ali Akbar Haghdoost, PhD, is a Professor of Epidemiology, Head of the Institute for Futures Studies in Health Kerman University of Medical Sciences, HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Kerman, Iran. Hamid Sharifi, PhD, is a Professor of Epidemiology, Head of HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.
*Corresponding author: Hamid Sharifi, e-mail: [email protected]This manuscript was submitted as a pre-print before submission to JANAC. The citation associated with the pre-print is: Nima Ghalekhani, Ali Mirzazadeh, Fatemeh Tavakoli et al. HIV Continuum of Care Among People Who Inject Drugs in Iran, 09 November 2021, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1057317/v1].At the time of accepting this manuscript, there were no comments associated with the pre-print.
