Developing an HIV Behavioral Surveillance System for Injecting Drug Users: The National HIV Behavioral Surveillance System

Autor: Amy Lansky, Melissa Cribbin, Lillian S. Lin, Patrick S. Sullivan, Richard S. Garfein, Teresa Finlayson, Tricia Hall, Abu S. Abdul-Quader
Rok vydání: 2007
Předmět:
Gerontology
Sexually transmitted disease
medicine.medical_specialty
Population
Specific risk
HIV Infections
Pilot Projects
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
03 medical and health sciences
Risk-Taking
0302 clinical medicine
Catchment Area
Health
0504 sociology
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Environmental health
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Program Development
Substance Abuse
Intravenous
education
Practice
Disease surveillance
education.field_of_study
business.industry
Patient Selection
Public health
05 social sciences
Urban Health
Public Health
Environmental and Occupational Health
virus diseases
050401 social sciences methods
medicine.disease
United States
Substance abuse
Population Surveillance
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
U.S
business
Public Health Administration
Zdroj: Public Health Reports. 122:48-55
ISSN: 1468-2877
0033-3549
DOI: 10.1177/00333549071220s108
Popis: While disease surveillance for HIV/AIDS is now widely conducted in the United States, effective HIV prevention programs rely primarily on changing behavior; therefore, behavioral data are needed to inform these programs. To achieve the goal of reducing HIV infections in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in cooperation with state and local health departments, implemented the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance System (NHBS) for injecting drug users (IDUs) in 25 selected metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) throughout the United States in 2005. The surveillance system used respondent-driven sampling (RDS), a modified chain-referral method, to recruit IDUs for a survey measuring HIV-associated drug use and sexual risk behavior. RDS can produce population estimates for specific risk behaviors and demographic characteristics. Formative assessment activities—primarily the collection of qualitative data—provided information to better understand the IDU population and implement the surveillance activities in each city. This is the first behavioral surveillance system of its kind in the U.S. that will provide local and national data on risk for HIV and other blood-borne and sexually transmitted infections among IDUs for monitoring changes in the epidemic and prevention programs.
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