Table 2.

Injection practices among 29 young people who inject drugs in St. Petersburg, Russia, 2016

	%
Median years of injection drug use (IQR)1	4(2–6)
Median age at first injection in years (IQR)	18(17–20)
Injected in the past 90 days
No	28
Yes	72
Age of person injected with the first time
< 18	10
18–26	83
> 26	0
Injected by themselves	7
Syringe use in the past 12 months
Used new only	52
Used new and reused his/her own	27
Used others’	0
Did not inject in past 12 months	21
Shared paraphernalia in the past 12 months
Never	28
Rarely	21
Sometimes	21
Often	6
All the time	3
Did not inject in past 12 months	21
Spoke with people inject with about the need to inject safely in the past 6 months
Never	24
Rarely	21
Some of the time	17
Most of the time	17
All the time	0
Did not inject in past 6 months or missing	21
Supplied sterile syringes to people inject with in the past 6 months
Never	17
Rarely	17
Some of the time	17
Most of the time	28
All the time	0
Did not inject in past 6 months or missing	21
Made sure had enough sterile syringes so can provide to others in the past 6 months
Never	24
Rarely	17
Some of the time	17
Most of the time	14
All the time	7
Did not inject in past 6 months or missing	21
When someone uses or is about to use someone else’s syringe and no one has a clean syringe
We will not let them do it	38
They will not be invited into our company again	3
There will be sarcastic jokes, etc.	38
Everything will continue as if nothing happened	3
Such people do not come into our company	18

¹IQR = interquartile range