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Socio-demographic and sexual practices associated with HIV infection in Kenyan injection and non-injection drug users

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, January 2018
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Title
Socio-demographic and sexual practices associated with HIV infection in Kenyan injection and non-injection drug users
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BMC Public Health, January 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12889-018-5100-y
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Valentine Budambula, Charles Matoka, James Ouma, Aabid A. Ahmed, Michael F. Otieno, Tom Were

Abstract

Substance use is increasingly becoming prevalent on the African continent, fueling the spread of HIV infection. Although socio-demographic factors influence substance consumption and risk of HIV infection, the association of these factors with HIV infection is poorly understood among substance users on the African continent. The objective of the study was to assess socio-demographic and sexual practices that are associated with HIV infection among injection drug users (IDUs), non-IDUs, and non-drug users (DUs) at an urban setting of coastal Kenya. A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted among 451 adults comprising HIV-infected and -uninfected IDUs (n = 157 and 39); non-IDUs (n = 17 and 48); and non-DUs (n = 55 and 135); respectively at coastal, Kenya. Respondent driven sampling, snowball and makeshift methods were used to enroll IDUs and non-IDUs. Convenience and purposive sampling were used to enroll non-DUs from the hospital's voluntary HIV testing unit. Participant assisted questionnaire was used in collecting socio-demographic data and sexual practices. Binary logistic regression analysis indicated that higher likelihood of HIV infection was associated with sex for police protection (OR, 9.526; 95% CI, 1.156-78.528; P = 0.036) and history of sexually transmitted infection (OR, 5.117; 95% CI, 1.924-13.485; P = 0.001) in IDUs; divorced, separated or widowed marital status (OR, 6.315; 95% CI, 1.334-29.898; P = 0.020) in non-IDUs; and unemployment (OR, 2.724; 95% CI, 1.049-7.070; P = 0.040) in non-drug users. However, never married (single) marital status (OR, 0.140; 95% CI, 0.030-0.649; P = 0.012) was associated with lower odds for HIV infection in non-drug users. Altogether, these results suggest that socio-demographic and sexual risk factors for HIV transmission differ with drug use status, suggesting targeted preventive measures for drug users.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 83 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 17 20%
Researcher 9 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 7%
Lecturer 5 6%
Student > Bachelor 4 5%
Other 9 11%
Unknown 33 40%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 15 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 10%
Psychology 7 8%
Social Sciences 5 6%
Immunology and Microbiology 3 4%
Other 7 8%
Unknown 38 46%
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Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 January 2024.
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#6,961,098
of 25,177,382 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#7,399
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Outputs of similar age
#132,119
of 452,356 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#173
of 258 outputs
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