Sentence examples for risky injection practices from inspiring English sources

And critically, SIFs have been found to attract injection drug users most at risk for HIV/AIDS and to reduce HIV/AIDS risk behaviors by decreasing risky injection practices, providing clean injection equipment, and providing prevention education.

Our findings indicate that given the high HIV prevalence and the high levels of risky injection practices among PWID in Nairobi, there is a potential to see increases in HIV prevalence in this population.

Between 1990 and 1997 IDUs in New York City reported significant declines in risky injection practices [ 3] and the prevalence of HIV among IDUs dropped from 50%to30%0% by 2000 [ 4].

Overall, an estimated 67.3 % engaged in at least one of these risky injection practices in a typical month, and 80.0 % are estimated to have ever engaged in any of these practices in their lifetime.

During study follow-up, women more frequently reported risky injection practices, including: borrowing used syringes (OR=1.8, 95% CI: 1.3 to 2.6), reuse of a cooker previously used by another injector (OR=1.5, 95% CI: 1.03 to 2.3) and doing a rinse (OR 1.9, 95% CI 1.3 to 2.7) (table 2).

An estimated 67.3 % engaged in at least one risky injection practice in a typical month.

Young women's riskier injection practices lead to their higher rates of HCV infection.

17 20 There is some evidence that women engage in riskier injection practices 21; more consistent is the finding that women are more likely to report factors indirectly associated with HCV infection, including having a regular IDU sex partner 22 24 and needing help injecting.

As in many countries in Asia (3) and Eastern Europe (4), the HIV epidemic in Vietnam appears to be a consequence of the social context: new drug trafficking routes, internal migration, increasing economic and urban-rural inequalities and the transition from smoking opium to the risky injection of heroin practices (5).

Injecting-related damage to arm veins resulted in interviewees switching to riskier injecting practices.

Another explanation for the trends in Fig.  1 is that PAT injection practices were riskier in the earlier half of the 20th century but became safer thereafter.