Social and structural factors associated with HIV infection among female sex workers who inject drugs in the Mexico-US border region

FSWs who inject drugs (FSW-IDUs) can acquire HIV through high risk sexual and injection behaviors. We studied correlates of HIV infection among FSW-IDUs in northern Mexico, where sex work is quasi-legal and syringes can be legally obtained without a prescription. FSW-IDUs>18 years old who reporte...

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Published in:PloS one 2011-04, Vol.6 (4), p.e19048
Main Authors: Strathdee, Steffanie A, Lozada, Remedios, Martinez, Gustavo, Vera, Alicia, Rusch, Melanie, Nguyen, Lucie, Pollini, Robin A, Uribe-Salas, Felipe, Beletsky, Leo, Patterson, Thomas L
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Adult
AIDS
Behavior
Chlamydia
Clients
Correlation analysis
Demography
Drug abuse
Drug use
Drugs
Environment
Female
Gonorrhea
Health risks
HIV
HIV infections
HIV Infections - complications
HIV Infections - epidemiology
HIV tests
Human immunodeficiency virus
Humans
Infections
Medical research
Medicine
Mexico - epidemiology
Needle exchange programs
Odds Ratio
Police
Prevention
Prostitution
Risk factors
Risk taking
Sex
Sex oriented businesses
Sex Work - statistics & numerical data
Sexually transmitted diseases
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Social environment
Socioeconomic Factors
STD
Studies
Substance Abuse, Intravenous - complications
Substance Abuse, Intravenous - epidemiology
Surveys
Syphilis
Syphilis - complications
Syringes
United States - epidemiology
Workers
Working women
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Summary:FSWs who inject drugs (FSW-IDUs) can acquire HIV through high risk sexual and injection behaviors. We studied correlates of HIV infection among FSW-IDUs in northern Mexico, where sex work is quasi-legal and syringes can be legally obtained without a prescription. FSW-IDUs>18 years old who reported injecting drugs and recent unprotected sex with clients in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez underwent surveys and HIV/STI testing. Logistic regression identified correlates of HIV infection. Of 620 FSW-IDUs, prevalence of HIV, gonorrhea, Chlamydia, trichomonas, syphilis titers ≥1:8, or any of these infections was 5.3%, 4%, 13%, 35%, 10% and 72%, respectively. Compared to other FSW-IDUs, HIV-positive women were more likely to: have syphilis titers ≥1:8 (36% vs. 9%, p
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0019048