@article {1145, title = {HIV prevalence, sociodemographic, and behavioral correlates and recruitment methods among injection drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia.}, journal = {Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)}, volume = {41}, year = {2006}, month = {2006 Apr 15}, pages = {657-63}, abstract = {In St. Petersburg, Russia, we sought to describe the characteristics of active high-risk injection drug users (IDUs) to evaluate the associations between behavioral and demographic characteristics and HIV-1 infection and to describe 3 discrete recruitment methods.}, keywords = {Adult, Cohort Studies, Female, Heroin Dependence, HIV Infections, HIV Seronegativity, HIV Seroprevalence, Humans, Male, Needle Sharing, Risk Assessment, Risk-Taking, Russia, Socioeconomic Factors, Substance Abuse, Intravenous, Urban Population}, issn = {1525-4135}, doi = {10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.03149.x}, author = {Shaboltas, Alla V and Toussova, Olga V and Hoffman, Irving F and Heimer, Robert and Verevochkin, Sergei V and Ryder, Robert W and Khoshnood, Kaveh and Perdue, Tom and Masse, Benoit R and Kozlov, Andrei P} }