TABLE 1.

Characteristics of 171 HIV-Positive Street Youth

	n	%	95% CI
Demographic characteristics
Sex
Male	130	75.9	71.9–80.0
Female	41	24.1	20.0–28.1
Age, y
18–24	143	85.2	83.7–86.8
15–17	28	14.8	13.2–16.3
Social risk factors
≥2 y on streets	141	83.6	81.6–85.6
Sleeping on the streets
Always*	86	49.1	44.7–53.4
Sometimes	54	34.1	29.8–38.4
Never	31	16.8	14.5–19.1
Orphan	109	60.8	56.6–65.1
In school	14	8.0	6.0–10.0
Work for pay	72	41.4	37.1–45.6
City
Kyiv	58	41.1	33.1–49.2
Odessa	83	39.6	34.1–45.1
Donetsk	30	19.3	15.6–23.0
Registered in city	91	57.4	53.8–60.9
Ever lived in institution (orphanage or internat)*	48	27.4	25.1–29.6
Experienced violence(physical, sexual, or emotional)	97	56.5	50.7–62.3
Females	32	76.7	71.5–82.0
Males	65	50.0	43.6–56.4
Sexual
Ever had sex†	158	94.2	92.9–95.5
≥2 sex partners past year†	102	59.5	56.6–62.5
Did not use condoms at last sexual intercourse†	96	60.6	57.7–63.5
Ever exchanged sex for goods	15	8.7	6.6–10.7
Know condoms as a way to prevent HIV	121	71.2	68.4–74.1
Substance use
Injection drug use
Lifetime	131	77.2	73.4–81.1
Current (past month)	82	48.6	44.4–52.8
Injected 3+ y	76	48.9	43.0–54.8
Know HIV transmitted by needle sharing	154	90.2	88.8–91.6
If current injector: using needle-syringe exchange program	12	16.6	11.8–21.5
Alcohol use
Drunk 6+ d last month	36	23.8	19.8–27.7
Previously diagnosed as having HIV	25	15.3	12.2–18.4

Numbers (n) are unweighted, and percentages are weighted.

^*Youth who “always” sleep on the streets comprise youth who either do not have a residence or who have a residence but have not spent the night there for more than 3 months.

^†Total n decreased due to missing data (ever had sex, n = 2; condoms at last sex, n = 13).