How many IDUs?

Did you ever wonder how many IDUs are in your country?

Below, find a published article that attempts to answer this question, for 105 countries.

Estimates of injecting drug users at the national and local level in developing and transitional countries, and gender and age distribution.

http://sti.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/82/suppl_3/iii10

These numbers are estimates. But as Dick Franks says, "Some data is better than no data."

You could use this data to:

1. Advocate for a population estimation to be done, if there is no data on your country here
2. Estimate the percentage of all IDUs in your country that your PSI intervention is reaching
3. Compare the numbers of IDUs reached by all programs in your country against the total number of IDUs, to see the percentage of IDUs not being reached. This could constitute the beginning of a "Gap Analysis" that could help if you're considering a GF Round 8 proposal.

Hope this helps.

Rob