Is injection serosorting occurring among HIV-positive injection drug users? Comparison by injection partner's HIV status.

ABSTRACT: Research needs to build evidence for the roles that HIV status of injection partners may or may not play in injection risk behaviors of injection drug users (IDUs). Using baseline data collected from a randomized controlled study (INSPIRE) conducted in four cities (Baltimore, Miami, New York, and San Francisco) from 2001 to 2005, we categorized 759 primarily heterosexual HIV-positive IDUs into four groups based on HIV serostatus of drug injection partners. Thirty-two percent of the sample injected exclusively with HIV-positive partners in the past 3 months and more than 60% had risky injection behavior with these partners. Eight percent injected exclusively with HIV-negative partners and 49% injected with any unknown status partners. The remaining 11% reported having both HIV-positive and

SUBMITTER: Mizuno Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3232423 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature