Network centrality and HIV prevention service use among people who inject drugs: Findings from a sociometric network cohort in New Delhi, India.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Network centrality, an indicator of an individual's importance and potential to drive behavioral change, is rarely used to select peer educators. Individual-level predictors of network centrality might be useful to identify people who inject drugs (PWID) for potential roles as peer navigators or change agents in network-based interventions in settings where sociometric data are unavailable. We assessed the relationship between network centrality and HIV prevention service engagement to determine whether centrally-positioned PWID share measurable commonalities.

Design

Observational study and survey using baseline data from a sociometric network cohort of PWID, enumerated using network software and biometric data (2017-2020). Network ties corresponded to di

SUBMITTER: Prata Menezes N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11003398 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature