Association between recreational drug use and sexual practices among people who inject drugs in Southwest China: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe the differences in sexual practices among individuals with various drug administration patterns.

Setting

A detoxification centre in Southwest China, a part of the Chinese national sentential surveillance network for hepatitis C virus (HCV), HIV and syphilis infections, was recruited.

Participants

A total of 610 newly enrolled injection drug users (IDUs) from detoxification centre were included during 2015.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Self-reported sexual activities, drug-related practices and laboratory-confirmed HCV, HIV and syphilis infection status were collected.

Results

Of the 610 IDU, 295 (48.4%) used heroin only, 277 (45.4%) poly-drug users reported the mixed use of synthetic drugs (SDs) with heroin and 38 (6.2%) u

SUBMITTER: Su S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6042564 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature