DC CFAR Investigator and NIH CFAR Ending the HIV Epidemic Supplement recipient, Dr. Carlos Rodriguez-Diaz (GW) and colleges recently published an editorial in the American Journal of Public Health February 2020 entitled "Puerto Rican Syndemics: Opiates, Overdoses, HIV, and the Hepatitis C Virus in a Context of Ongoing Crises".
The article highlights Puerto Rico's ongoing political and socio-economic crises in relation to current public health practices for Opiates, Overdoses, HIV and Hepatitis C. The authors also describe the need of supporting different evidence-based interventions in PR for those people who inject drugs.