Mandy J Hill1, Michael Holt2, Brett Hanscom3, Zhe Wang4, Marylou Cardenas-Turanzas5, Carl Latkin6. 1. McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, United States. Electronic address: mandy.j.hill@uth.tmc.edu. 2. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, United States. Electronic address: mholt@scharp.org. 3. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, United States. Electronic address: bhanscom@fredhutch.org. 4. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, United States. Electronic address: zwang235@scharp.org. 5. McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, United States. Electronic address: Maria.CardenasTuranzas@uth.tmc.edu. 6. John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States. Electronic address: carl.latkin@jhu.edu.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Sexual contact has been shown to be a major mode of HIV transmission among people who inject drugs (PWID). This study examined gender and racial differences among PWID' sexual risk behaviors from the perspective of sexual scripts. METHODS: 696 PWID enrolled from Philadelphia on HPTN 037 were classified as engaging in high-risk sex behaviors if they reported having sex in the past 30 days and condomless sex with a non-primary partner, giving/receiving sex for money, or multiple partners. A multivariable logistic regression model was used to assess associations between demographic factors and high risk sex. RESULTS: Findings of the multivariable regression analysis demonstrated that being White (OR = 0.52, p < 0.001) and male (OR = 0.59, p = 0.002) were protective of high risk sex, while homelessness (OR = 1.7, p = 0.005), and being single (OR = 1.83, p = 0.006) were positively associated with high risk sex. African American (AA) women were 1.7 times more likely to report high-risk sex than AA men (p = 0.002), 3.28 times more likely than White men (p < 0.001), and 1.93 times more likely than White women (p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Since AA women report high-risk sex behaviors more than other demographic groups, behavioral interventions for HIV risk reduction among PWID may benefit from focusing on sex-risk reduction among AA women.
BACKGROUND: Sexual contact has been shown to be a major mode of HIV transmission among people who inject drugs (PWID). This study examined gender and racial differences among PWID' sexual risk behaviors from the perspective of sexual scripts. METHODS: 696 PWID enrolled from Philadelphia on HPTN 037 were classified as engaging in high-risk sex behaviors if they reported having sex in the past 30 days and condomless sex with a non-primary partner, giving/receiving sex for money, or multiple partners. A multivariable logistic regression model was used to assess associations between demographic factors and high risk sex. RESULTS: Findings of the multivariable regression analysis demonstrated that being White (OR = 0.52, p < 0.001) and male (OR = 0.59, p = 0.002) were protective of high risk sex, while homelessness (OR = 1.7, p = 0.005), and being single (OR = 1.83, p = 0.006) were positively associated with high risk sex. African American (AA) women were 1.7 times more likely to report high-risk sex than AA men (p = 0.002), 3.28 times more likely than White men (p < 0.001), and 1.93 times more likely than White women (p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Since AA women report high-risk sex behaviors more than other demographic groups, behavioral interventions for HIV risk reduction among PWID may benefit from focusing on sex-risk reduction among AA women.
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