Drug choice, spatial distribution, HIV risk, and HIV prevalence among injection drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia |
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| Authors: | Gina Rae Kruse Russell Barbour Robert Heimer Alla V Shaboltas Olga V Toussova Irving F Hoffman Andrei P Kozlov |
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| Institution: | (1) Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA;(2) Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA;(3) Department of Epidemiology & Public Health and the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Yale School of Public Health, 60 College Street New Haven, 06520-8034, PO Box 208034, CT, USA;(4) The Biomedical Center, Russia and the Faculty of Psychology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg;(5) The Biomedical Center, St. Petersburg, Russia;(6) Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA;(7) The Biomedical Center, St. Petersburg, Russia;(8) Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA |
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| Abstract: | Background The HIV epidemic in Russia has been driven by the unsafe injection of drugs, predominantly heroin and the ephedrine derived
psychostimulants. Understanding differences in HIV risk behaviors among injectors associated with different substances has
important implications for prevention programs. |
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