Table 1.

Baseline population characteristics of randomized study participants, n (%).

	Experimental group (n=114)	Control group (n=113)
Male	63 (55)	61 (54)
Age	43.9 (7.8)	43.0 (7.4)
African American	96 (84)	98 (87)
Orasure seropositive HIV status	12 (12) out of 102*	16 (16) out of 101*
Education
Grade 1–11th	70 (61)	55 (49)
12th grade/High school diploma	33 (29)	41 (36)
Some college/college degree	11 (10)	17 (15)
Homeless in the past 6 months	43 (38)	42 (37)
Prison in the past 6 months	27 (24)	31 (27)
Unemployed in the past 6 months	106 (93)	101 (89)
Daily injection in past 6 months	58 (51)	51 (46)
Using an unclean needle	45 (40)	49 (43)
Using an unclean cotton or cooker	74 (65)	73 (65)
Exchange sex in past 90 days for food, shelter, drugs or money	20 (22) out of 92**	24 (25) out of 96**

^*Out of 227 participants 203 agreed to take HIV test.

^**Among those who reported having sex in past 90 days.