Table 1 Socio-demographic and behavioral characteristics of people who inject drugs in the 2020 National HIV Bio-behavioral.
Variable | Hepatitis C virus n (%) | Hepatitis C virus RDS weighted (%) | Total n (% within each variable) | RDS weighted (% within each variable) | P-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Seronegative HCV | Seropositive HCV | Seronegative HCV | Seropositive HCV | ||||
Sex | |||||||
Female | 75 (83.3) | 15 (16.7) | 82.1 | 17.9 | 90 (3.4) | 4.7 | 0.055+ |
Male | 1880 (74.4) | 684 (25.6) | 72.3 | 27.7 | 2564 (96.6) | 95.3 | |
Education | |||||||
Under high school | 1289 (70.7) | 535 (29.3) | 72.0 | 28.0 | 1824 (69.1) | 68.2 | < 0.001+ |
High school or higher | 660 (81.1) | 154 (18.9) | 80.3 | 19.7 | 814 (30.9) | 31.8 | |
Marital status | |||||||
Single | 715 (76.4) | 221 (23.6) | 78.1 | 21.9 | 936 (36.6) | 34.5 | < 0.001+ |
Currently married | 501 (78.3) | 139 (21.7) | 77.6 | 22.4 | 640 (25.0) | 26.0 | |
Widow/divorce | 679 (69.3) | 301 (30.7) | 69.9 | 30.1 | 980 (38.3) | 39.5 | |
Lifetime history of homeless | |||||||
No | 889 (77.8) | 254 (22.2) | 76.4 | 23.4 | 1143 (43.4) | 45.3 | < 0.001+ |
Yes | 1054 (70.8) | 435 (29.2) | 69.9 | 30.1 | 1489 (56.6) | 54.7 | |
HIV sero-status | |||||||
Negative | 1957 (75.6) | 632 (24.4) | 73.3 | 26.7 | 2589 (96.5) | 96.9 | < 0.001+ |
Positive | 28 (29.5) | 67 (70.5) | 29.1 | 70.9 | 95 (3.5) | 3.1 | |
Ever injected methamphetamine | |||||||
No | 1277 (78.1) | 358 (21.9) | 78.9 | 21.1 | 1635 (65.8) | 66.7 | < 0.001+ |
Yes | 563 (66.2) | 288 (33.8) | 65.8 | 34.2 | 851 (34.2) | 33.3 | |
Public injecting, last 12 months | |||||||
No | 560 (77.2) | 165 (22.8) | 76.1 | 23.9 | 725 (30.4) | 31.6 | 0.027+ |
Yes | 1213 (72.9) | 450 (27.1) | 73.0 | 27.0 | 1663 (69.6) | 68.4 | |
Ever shared needle/syringe with others | |||||||
No | 1636 (78.8) | 439 (21.2) | 78.0 | 22.0 | 2075 (81.1) | 80.2 | < 0.001+ |
Yes | 250 (51.9) | 232 (48.1) | 52.6 | 47.4 | 482 (18.9) | 19.8 | |
Deprivation of health services due to drug use | |||||||
No | 1046 (76.9) | 314 (23.1) | 74.9 | 25.1 | 1360 (53.4) | 52.6 | < 0.001+ |
Yes | 829 (69.9) | 357 (30.1) | 70.3 | 29.7 | 1186 (46.6) | 47.4 | |
Ever incarcerated | |||||||
No | 777 (87.4) | 112 (12.6) | 88.2 | 11.8 | 889 (33.9) | 34.1 | < 0.001+ |
Yes | 1159 (66.7) | 572 (33.0) | 65.9 | 34.1 | 1731 (66.1) | 65.9 | |
The first experience of drug use through injecting drugs | |||||||
No | 1851 (73.6) | 665 (26.4) | 75.2 | 24.8 | 2516 (95.3) | 94.5 | 0.483+ |
Yes | 94 (76.4) | 29 (23.6) | 75.5 | 24.5 | 123 (4.7) | 5.5 | |
Mean (SD) | |||||||
Median [Q1, Q3]* | |||||||
Seronegative HCV | Seropositive HCV | Total | |||||
Age, years | 39.0 (9.2) | 43.6 (8.8) | 40.2 (9.3) | < 0.001** | |||
38.0 [33.0, 45.0] | 43.0 [38.0, 49.0] | 39.0 [34.0, 46.0] | |||||
Age at the first drug use, years | 19.8 (5.3) | 19.1 (4.7) | 19.6 (5.1) | < 0.001** | |||
19.0 [16.0, 22.0] | 18.0 [16.0, 21.0] | 19.0 [16.0, 22.0] | |||||
Time since onset of drug injection, years | 19.2 (9.1) | 24.5 (8.9) | 20.6 (9.3) | < 0.001** | |||
19.0 [12.0, 25.0] | 24.0 [18.0, 30.0] | 20.0 [14.0, 26.0] | |||||
