Injecting and sexual risk behaviours, sexually transmitted infections and HIV prevalence in injecting drug users in three states in India
| Autor: | Jagadish, Mahanta, Gajendra Kumar, Medhi, Ramesh S, Paranjape, Nandan, Roy, Anjalee, Kohli, Brogen S, Akoijam, Bernice, Dzuvichu, Hiranya Kumar, Das, Prabuddhagopal, Goswami, Gay, Thongamba, Umesh, Chawla |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Adult
Male Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Sexual Behavior Immunology Sexually Transmitted Diseases Psychological intervention India HIV Infections law.invention Heroin Condoms Young Adult Age Distribution Risk-Taking Condom law Environmental health Blood-Borne Pathogens medicine Humans Immunology and Allergy Young adult Substance Abuse Intravenous Gynecology Needle sharing Transmission (medicine) business.industry Age Factors virus diseases medicine.disease Substance abuse Infectious Diseases Clinical research business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | AIDS. 22:S59-S68 |
| ISSN: | 0269-9370 |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVE: To describe and compare sexual and injecting risk behaviours and sexually transmitted infections (STI) hepatitis C virus (HCV) and HIV prevalence in injecting drug users (IDU) in six districts in three states of India: Manipur Nagaland and Maharashtra. METHOD: The respondent-driven sample consisted of 2075 IDU. Consenting participants were administered a structured questionnaire and samples of blood and urine were collected to test for HIV and STI. Data were analysed using RDSAT. RESULTS: In two districts in Manipur 77 and 98% of IDU injected heroin whereas the main injecting drug in Nagaland was dextropropoxyphene (99%). In Mumbai/Thane Maharashtra the majority of respondents reported using chlorpheniramine (87%) and heroin (99%). In all districts almost half of IDU reported generally sharing needles and syringes; consistent condom use with non-paid female partners was also low. Approximately one-quarter of IDU in Mumbai/Thane visited a paid partner in the past year. IDU with reactive syphilis serology were higher in Nagaland (7 and 19%) than in Manipur and Maharashtra. HIV in two districts of Manipur (23% 32%) and Mumbai/Thane (16%) was greater than Nagaland ( |
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