Table 1:
Index participants (n=989) | |
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Age, years | 37 (31–42) |
Sex | |
Female | 485 (49%) |
Male | 504 (51%) |
Marital status | |
Married | 220 (22%) |
Unmarried | 769 (78%) |
Region | |
Nairobi | 532 (54%) |
Coast | 457 (46%) |
Violence in past year | |
Physical | 338 (34%) |
Sexual | 87 (9%) |
Threatened | 185 (19%) |
Injection history and risk behaviours | |
Needle sharing in past month | 68 (7%) |
Equipment sharing in past month | 106 (11%) |
Time injecting drugs, years | 5 (2–7) |
Monthly frequency of injecting | 60 (30–90) |
Sexual encounters in past month | 2(0–10) |
Lifetime sexual partners | 15 (6–50) |
Condom use during last sexual intercourse* | 553 (56%) |
Transactional sex, ever† | 760 (77%) |
On methadone | 228 (23%) |
HIV and HCV data | |
HCV antibody positive | 162 (16%) |
HCV viraemia | 73 (7%) |
Previously treated with direct-acting antivirals | 27 (3%) |
Engaged in HIV care | 855 (86%) |
On antiretroviral therapy | 800(81%) |
Viral suppression of HIV | 535 (68%)‡ |
Partners | |
Also enrolled as partner§ | 502 (51%) |
Number of partners mentioned | |
1–5 | 723 (73%) |
6–10 | 233 (24%) |
>10 | 33 (3%) |
Data are n (%) or median (IQR). Index participants were people who inject drugs and were living with HIV. HCV=hepatitis C virus.
Defined as vaginal, oral, or anal penetrative sex.
Defined as giving or receiving money or material goods in exchange for sex.
Data were unavailable for 201 participants, so the denominator for this percentage calculation was 788.
Also named as partners and thus represented again in table 2.