Table 1.
Select sociodemographic characteristics and injection practices of individual injectors in the sample (N=4,067)
| Characteristics of Individual Injectors | No. (%) or Median (Range) |
|---|---|
| Gender | |
| Woman | 846 (20.80%) |
| Man | 3,221 (79.20%) |
| Race/ethnicity | |
| Latino/a (regardless of race) | 2,005 (50.31%) |
| Non-Hispanic Black/African-American | 848 (20.85%) |
| Non-Hispanic White and Other3 | 1,132 (27.83%) |
| Age | 38 (18, 75) |
| Heterosexual | 3,628 (89.21%) |
| Homeless | 1,374 (33.78%) |
| HIV positive (self-report) | 463 (11.38%) |
| Years since started injecting | 14 (0, 52) |
| Injected ≥4 times a day in the last 6 mo | 1,736 (42.69%) |
| Injected with a sterile syringe in the last 6 mo | |
| ≤ 25% of injection events | 1939 (47.68%) |
| 26% - 74% of injection events | 768 (18.88%) |
| ≥ 75% of injection events | 1,360 (33.44%) |
| Gave a used syringe to someone in the last 6 mo | 1,044 (25.67%) |
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Only 87 people reported that they were not Latino/Hispanic, White or African-American/Black during the study period. These individuals were grouped with non-Hispanic White individuals in analyses because their risk profile most closely matched those of this racial/ethnic group.