Using Contact Patterns to Inform HIV Interventions in Persons Who Inject Drugs in Northern Vietnam.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:Population mixing patterns can greatly inform allocation of HIV prevention interventions such as treatment as prevention or preexposure prophylaxis. Characterizing contact patterns among subgroups can help identify the specific combinations of contact expected to result in the greatest number of new infections. SETTING:Baseline data from an intervention to reduce HIV-related risk behaviors in male persons who inject drugs (PWID) in the Northern Vietnamese province of Thai Nguyen were used for the analysis. METHODS:Egocentric network data were provided by PWID who reported any drug-injection equipment sharing in the previous 3 months. Age-dependent mixing was assessed to explore its epidemiological implications on risk of HIV transmission risk (among those HIV-infected) and HIV a

SUBMITTER: Smith MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5889335 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature