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Global Health Economics and
Sustainability
OAT in Central Asia: Kyrgyz Republic

Figure 1. Map of non-penitentiary methadone sites in the Kyrgyz Republic and their start years. Image created by the authors.

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Figure 2. The number of new HIV cases among PWID decreases as OAT expands in the Kyrgyz Republic. (A) Total number of people receiving opioid
agonist therapies by year in the Kyrgyz Republic. (B) Number of new HIV cases per year in the Kyrgyz Republic among the total population (shown in
blue) and among people who inject drugs (PWID) (shown in orange) (Republican AIDS Center of the Ministry of Health of the Kyrgyz Republic, n.d.).
In 2010, PWID accounted for nearly two-thirds of new HIV cases in the Kyrgyz Republic; by 2022, PWID represented only about 2% of new HIV cases.

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