Injecting Risk Behavior among Traveling Young Injection Drug Users: Travel Partner and City Characteristics

摘要: Young injection drug users (IDUs), a highly mobile population, engage in high levels of injecting risk behavior, yet little is understood about how such behavior may vary by the characteristics cities to which they travel, including existence syringe exchange program (SEP), as well travel partner characteristics. In 2004–2005, we conducted 6-month prospective study investigate 89 young IDUs traveled, with detailed information gathered 350 city visits. multivariable analyses, larger urban population 500,000–1,000,000 was significantly associated drugs (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 3.71; 95 % confidence interval (CI), 1.56–8.82), ancillary equipment sharing (AES; AOR 7.05; CI, 2.25–22.06) and receptive needle (RNS; 5.73; 1.11–27.95), compared visits smaller populations below 50,000. Region country, SEP within visited, were not independently drugs, AES, or RNS during Traveling more than one (AOR 2.77; 1.46–5.27), when traveling alone. Additionally, both non-daily daily/almost daily alcohol use AES 3.37; 1.42–7.68; 3.03; 1.32–6.97, respectively) no consumption. are likely inject other higher large cities. Risk occurring visits, consumption, suggests further need for focused interventions reduce viral infection among this population.