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Behaviors Associated with HIV Infection, STI and

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From May to July 2002 in Temirtau and Karaganda cities, in the Karaganda Oblast of Kazakhstan, a quantitative study was conducted among IDUs. In total, 1799 IDUs were studied: 899 in Temirtau and 900 in Karaganda. Temirtau was the first city in the Central Asian Region to experience an HIV outbreak, which occurred among injecting drug users in 1996. Karaganda is merely 30 kilometers from Temirtau, but registered HIV cases there remained at a consistently low level. This study is the first of its scale, in a former Soviet Union country, to determine the prevalence of HIV, STI and viral hepatitis among IDUs, along with specific injection practices, and to correlate information about the prevalence of infection with behavioral information. Considering the recent and fast-spreading HIV epidemic in the Central Asian Region, which for the moment has primarily affected IDUs, the results of this study are being called upon to provide important descriptive data as well as useful information in the determination of interventions and the orientation of subsequent studies and prophylactic work

• Creator/s: B. Zhussupov, A. Shakarishvilly, G. Muratbayeva, R. Bronzan, C. Ryan, M. Favorov
• Book Topics/Themes: HIV, transmission, IDU, STI, Hepatitis

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