HIV incidence among people who inject drugs (PWIDs) in Ukraine: results from a clustered randomised trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

HIV prevalence among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Ukraine is among the highest in the world. In this study, we aimed to assess whether a social network intervention was superior to HIV testing and counselling in affecting HIV incidence among PWID. Although this was not the primary aim of the study, it is associated with reducing drug and sex risk behaviours, which were primary aims.

Methods

In this clustered randomised trial, PWID who were 16 years of age or older, had used self-reported drug injection in the past 30 days, were willing to be interviewed for about 1 hour and tested for HIV, were not too impaired to comprehend and provide informed consent, and, for this paper, who tested HIV negative at baseline were recruited from the streets by project outrea

SUBMITTER: Booth RE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5101021 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature