A cohort study revealed high mortality among people who inject drugs in Hai Phong, Vietnam.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the residual mortality rate among people who inject drugs (PWID) in a Low-Middle Income Countries context where the HIV epidemic has been controlled and methadone coverage is high.

Study design and setting

PWID from Haiphong, Vietnam, were recruited through three annual respondent-driven sampling surveys that fueled two cohorts of PWID with HIV (n = 761) and without HIV (n = 897), with bi-annual follow-up. Presumed causes of death were ascertained from medical records and/or interviews of participants family.

Results

Among the 1658 participants with a median follow-up of 2 years, 67 and 36 died in the HIV-positive and HIV-negative cohort, respectively, yielding crude mortality rates of 4.3 (95% Confidence interval (CI): 3.3-5.4) per 100 person-ye

SUBMITTER: Vinh VH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10116693 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature