Intimate relationships and patterns of drug and sexual risk behaviors among people who inject drugs in Kazakhstan: A latent class analysis

Rates of HIV continue to grow among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Central Asia despite overall reductions worldwide in HIV incidence over the past decade (Degenhardt et al., 2016; Dehovitz et al., 2014; El-Bassel et al., 2013a,b; Thorne et al., 2010). In Kazakhstan, HIV infection is expanding at a rate that is among the fastest in the world with an increase of 39% in new cases of HIV infections from 2010-2016 (UNAIDS, 2016). Kazakhstan has one of the highest rates of injection drug use in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (Vickerman et al., 2014) amounting to an estimated population of 120,500 in Kazakhstan (UNAIDS, 2016).

Source: Drug and Alcohol Dependence - October 3, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Phillip L. Marotta, Assel Terlikbayeva, Louisa Gilbert, Tim Hunt, Amar Mandavia, Elwin Wu, Nabila El-Bassel Tags: Full length article Source Type: research