Title | HIV prevalence, sociodemographic, and behavioral correlates and recruitment methods among injection drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia. |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2006 |
Authors | Shaboltas, Alla V., Olga V. Toussova, Irving F. Hoffman, Robert Heimer, Sergei V. Verevochkin, Robert W. Ryder, Kaveh Khoshnood, Tom Perdue, Benoit R. Masse, and Andrei P. Kozlov |
Journal | Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) |
Volume | 41 |
Issue | 5 |
Pagination | 657-63 |
Date Published | 2006 Apr 15 |
ISSN | 1525-4135 |
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 |
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. |
DOI | 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.03149.x |
Alternate Journal | J. Acquir. Immune Defic. Syndr. |