Table IIIa.
Demographics and Drug Use among new and long-term “Regular” PWID in Hai Phong, Viet Nam, 2014
| New injectors** | ||
|---|---|---|
| Total N | 372 | 139 |
| Avg. Age(SD)* | 39(8) | 34(8) |
| Avg. Years injecting (SD)* | 12(5) % |
2(2) % |
| Gender | ||
| Male | 97 | 98 |
| Female | 3 | 2 |
| Drug use behaviors | ||
| Heroin (injected) | 100 | 100 |
| Methamphetamine (injected) | <1 | 0 |
| Methamphetamine (non-injected) | 23 | 20 |
| Sexually active* | 34 | 45 |
| HIV seropositive* | 33 | 1 |
| HCV seropositive* | 78 | 45 |
| Injecting daily or more frequently* | 85 | 77 |
| Receptive sharing+ | 4 | 7 |
| Distributive sharing# | 3 | 4 |
| Sex with primary partner* | 30 | 40 |
| Unsafe sex with primary partner | 23 | 31 |
| Sex with casual partner | 2 | 3 |
| Unsafe sex with casual partner | 1 | 1 |
| Exchanged sex for money | 0 | 0 |
| Unsafe sex with client | 0 | 0 |
| Exchanged money for sex | 5 | 8 |
| Unsafe sex with sex worker | 1 | 1 |
+
defined as receiving used needles/syringes from other PWID
#
defined as giving used needles/syringes to other PWID
*
Significant difference (p < 0.05) by chi-square test (for continuous variables t-test was used)
**
Long term injectors, injecting 5+ years, new injectors, injecting <5 years