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- Title
HIV Prevalence, Risk Behaviors, and High-Risk Sexual and Injection Networks Among Young Women Injectors Who Have Sex With Women.
- Authors
Friedman, Samuel R.; Ompad, Danielle C.; Maslow, Carey; Young, Rebecca; Case, Patricia; Hudson, Sharon M.; Diaz, Theresa; Morse, Edward; Bailey, Susan; Des Jarlais, Don C.; Perlis, Theresa; Hollibaugh, Amber; Garfein, Richard S.
- Abstract
The article presents a study which compared social situations, injection, sexual networks and behaviors of young women injection drug users who have sex with women (WSW) in the U.S. to examine their risk of contracting HIV. The study revealed that compared with other women injection drug users, WSW injection drug users have higher HIV prevalence and incidence rates and a greater likelihood of engaging in high-risk injection and sexual practices with men. WSW injection drug users were also more likely to have been institutionalized or homeless, to have engaged in riskier behaviors, to have had high-risk sexual and injection networks and to have been anti-hepatitis B virus-positive. In high HIV prevalence sites, WSW injection drug users were more likely to have been infected with HIV.
- Subjects
UNITED States; INTRAVENOUS drug abusers; YOUNG women; LESBIANS' sexual behavior; HIV; DISEASE risk factors; RISK-taking behavior
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2003, Vol 93, Issue 6, p902
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.93.6.902