ArticleCanadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique
Requiring help injecting as a risk factor for HIV infection in the Vancouver epidemic: implications for HIV prevention.
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- Behavioral risk assessment for infectious diseases (BRAID): Self-report instrument to assess injection and noninjection risk behaviors in substance users.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2016Article
- High Prevalence of Assisted Injection Among Street-Involved Youth in a Canadian Setting.AIDS and behavior · 2016Article
- Declining trends in the rates of assisted injecting: a prospective cohort study.Harm reduction journal · 2016Article
- Increasing awareness about HIV prevention among young people who initiated injection drug use in a Canadian setting, 1988-2014.The International journal on drug policy · 2015Article
- Prevalence and correlates of neck injection among people who inject drugs in Tijuana, Mexico.Drug and alcohol review · 2015Article
- Global Epidemiology of HIV Among Women and Girls Who Use or Inject Drugs: Current Knowledge and Limitations of Existing Data.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2015Review
- Decreasing Impact of Requiring Assistance Injecting on HIV Incidence.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2015Article
- Risk Factors Associated with Unsafe Injection Practices at the First Injection Episode among Intravenous Drug Users in France: Results from PrimInject, an Internet Survey.Journal of addiction · 2015Article
- Rethinking risk: gender and injection drug-related HIV risk among female sex workers and their non-commercial partners along the Mexico-U.S. border.The International journal on drug policy · 2014Article
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Abstract
backgroundRequiring help injecting was recently associated with syringe sharing, and later HIV-1 and HCV seroconversion among injection drug users (IDU) in Vancouver. This risk factor remains poorly understood. The present study investigates this risk factor among Vancouver IDUs.
methodsWe evaluated factors associated with requiring help injecting among participants enrolled in the Vancouver Injection Drug User Study (VIDUS) using univariate and logistic regression analyses. VIDUS participants who were followed-up during the period December 2000 to December 2001 were eligible for the present analyses. We also evaluated self-reported reasons for requiring help injecting.
resultsOverall, 661 active injection drug users were interviewed during the study period. Among this population, 151 (22.8%) had required help injecting during the last six months, whereas 510 (77.2%) indicated that they had not. Variables that were independently associated with requiring help injecting included borrowing a used syringe (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 2.18), frequent cocaine injection (AOR = 1.57), and female gender (AOR = 2.29). Among males, the most common reasons for requiring help injecting were: having no viable veins (77.1%), and anxiousness or being drug sick (42.9%). Among females, the most common reasons reported were: having no viable veins (71.6%), jugular injection or 'jugging' (45.7%), and being anxious or drug sick (27.2%). Almost twice as many females (13.6% vs 7.1%) reported not knowing how to inject as their reason for requiring help injecting.
conclusionAlthough current public health approaches, such as needle exchange, are unable to address the concerns associated with requiring help injecting, available evidence suggests that safer injecting facilities have the potential to substantially mitigate this risk behaviour.
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