Trial reportEuropean addiction research2009
Correlates of unsafe equipment sharing among injecting drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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14 citing papers in PubMed.
- Regional differences between people who inject drugs in an HIV prevention trial integrating treatment and prevention (HPTN 074): a baseline analysis.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2018Trial
- A peer-educator network HIV prevention intervention among injection drug users: results of a randomized controlled trial in St. Petersburg, Russia.AIDS and behavior · 2013Trial
- Stigma and other correlates of sharing injection equipment among people with HIV in St. Petersburg, Russia.Global public health · 2024Article
- Toots, tastes and tester shots: user accounts of drug sampling methods for gauging heroin potency.Harm reduction journal · 2018Article
- A Cohort Approach to Real-Time Detection of Acute HIV Infections Among People Who Inject Drugs in St. Petersburg, Russia.AIDS research and human retroviruses · 2018Article
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- Engagement in sex work does not increase HIV risk for women who inject drugs in Ukraine.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2017Article
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- HIV incidence and behavioral correlates of HIV acquisition in a cohort of injection drug users in St Petersburg, Russia.Medicine · 2016Article
- Two Independent HIV Epidemics in Saint Petersburg, Russia Revealed by Molecular Epidemiology.AIDS research and human retroviruses · 2015Article
- HIV among people who inject drugs in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia: a systematic review with implications for policy.BMJ open · 2012Article
- Drug network characteristics and HIV risk among injection drug users in Russia: the roles of trust, size, and stability.AIDS and behavior · 2011Article
- Unprotected sex in heterosexual partnerships of injecting drug users in st. Petersburg, Russia.AIDS and behavior · 2011Article
- Injecting equipment sharing in Russian drug injecting dyads.AIDS and behavior · 2010Article
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Abstract
aimsTo assess among injecting drug users (IDUs) in St. Petersburg, Russia, the urban environment, social norms and individual correlates of unsafe injecting.
methodsBetween December 2004 and January 2007, 446 IDUs were interviewed in St. Petersburg, Russia.
resultsPrevalence of HCV was 96% and HIV 44%. 17% reported receptive syringe sharing after an HIV-infected IDU, 49% distributive syringe sharing, 76% sharing cookers, 73% sharing filters and 71% syringe-mediated drug sharing when not all syringes were new. Urban environmental characteristics correlated with sharing cookers and syringe-mediated sharing, and social norms correlated with receptive and distributive syringe sharing and sharing cookers. Individual correlates included cleaning used syringes (all 5 dependent variables) and self-report of HIV infection (receptive and distributive syringe sharing).
conclusionHIV status disclosure is an unreliable but frequently used HIV prevention method among IDUs in St. Petersburg, who reported alarmingly high levels of injecting equipment sharing. Voluntary counseling and testing should be widely available for this population. Ethnography is needed to assess the effectiveness of the syringe cleaning process. Prevention interventions need to be ongoing among IDUs in St. Petersburg, and should incorporate urban environmental factors and social norms, which may involve peer education and social network interventions.
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