Public health officials have diagnosed six new HIV infections in the city among people who have injected drugs since November 2018 — the majority of which occurred in January, according to an advisory from the Boston Public Health Commission and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
The Jan. 25 advisory asked hospitals to watch for additional cases of HIV in patients reporting recent injection drug use. The advisory comes in the wake of a previous HIV outbreak in Lowell and Lawrence that involved 153 cases of the disease between 2015 and 2018, according to the Boston Globe. Read More
