Knowledge of HIV serostatus and preventive behaviour among European injecting drug users
| Autor: | Desenclos Jc, Papaevangelou G, Ancelle-Park R |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
biology Transmission (medicine) business.industry Immunology virus diseases Rate ratio medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Confidence interval Surgery law.invention Infectious Diseases Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Condom immune system diseases law mental disorders Epidemiology medicine Immunology and Allergy Serostatus business Sida Demography |
| Zdroj: | AIDS. 7:1371-1378 |
| ISSN: | 0269-9370 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/00002030-199310000-00011 |
| Popis: | Objective To study the effect of knowledge of HIV serostatus on behaviour for preventing the acquisition or transmission of HIV among European injecting drug users (IDU). Methods Data on behaviour and prior knowledge of HIV status were gathered during a multicentre cross-sectional survey of 200 European IDU recruited in 12 European countries in 1990. The respective proportions of IDU who (1) used condoms, (2) did not give their used injecting equipment to other IDU and (3) injected drugs safely (ether did not re-use other IDU's equipment or re-used it only after disinfection with bleach, alcohol or boiling water during the 6 months preceding interview were compared according to whether they knew their HIV serostatus for at least 6 months prior to interview. Results In comparison with IDU who had never been tested, IDU who knew that they were HIV-seropositive were more likely to always use condoms [rate ratio (RR) = 3.1; 95% confidence interval (CD, 2.3–4.2] and never gave their used equipment to other IDU (RR = 1.3; 95% Cl, 1.2–1.5), but did not differ with regard to safe injecting practices (RR = 1.0; 95% Cl, 0.9–1.1). Compared with IDU who had never been tested, IDU with a negative test tended to inject drugs safely more often (RR = 1.1; 95% Cl, 1.02–1.2). There was no significant difference in condom use (RR = 0.7; 95% Cl, 0.5–1.1). Conclusion These results indicate that the knowledge of HIV serostatus may help to reduce HIV transmission from HIV-positive IDU to others through safer injecting and sexual behaviour. However, for HIV-negative IDU safer injecting behaviour appears to be better accepted than safer sexual behaviour. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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