By Team Aakash Byju's
Sharing needles and syringes are the most common way people in the world get HIV from using drugs.
Drug use affects your judgment and increases risky sexual behavior, which raises your risk of contracting HIV.
HIV can multiply more quickly in your body when you use drugs, which raises your viral load.
Hepatitis C, a liver illness, is more likely to affect drug injectors. The treatment of HIV is complicated by hepatitis C.
HIV symptoms are worsened by drug abuse.
Abusing drugs makes you more likely to develop HIV problems.