Sexualized drug injection among men who have sex with men in Madrid and Barcelona as the first episode of drug injecting.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We estimate the prevalence of drug injection, the variables associated with having ever injected and the proportion of ever injectors whose first drug injection was for having sex; we describe the first drug injection episode, analyze the drugs most frequently injected and estimate the prevalence of risky injecting behaviors.

Methods

The participants were 3387 MSM without a previous HIV diagnosis attending four HIV/STI diagnosis services in Madrid and Barcelona. Lifetime prevalence and prevalence ratios (PRs) by different factors were calculated using Poisson regression models with robust variance. We compared the characteristics of first drug injection episode, lifetime injection and risky injecting behaviors of those whose first injection was for sex (FIS) with

SUBMITTER: Guerras JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8344139 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature