Shahesmaeili, Armita
Mirzazadeh, Ali
McFarland, Willi
Sharifi, Hamid
Haghdoost, Ali Akbar
Soori, Hamid
Article History
First Online: 15 May 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: All authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. PWIDs were given 80,000 rialsa (equal to ~ 2.67 USD) primary incentive (80,000 Iranian rials, or ~ 2.67 USD) as an incentive for participating in the study and 30,000 Rials (equal to ~ 1 USD) for each successful recruitment of an injecting peer. The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences.