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Table 2 Drug use experience and sexual practices

From: HIV and hepatitis C Virus in internally displaced people with and without injection drug use experience in the region of Shida Kartli, Georgia

Drug Use Experience and Sexual Practices (for PWID* only, N = 48)

 

Mean

Range

Age of First Drug Use Injection (years)

22

14–35

Duration of IDU** (years)

6

1–24

Types of Drug Injected

 

N

%

Buprenorphine and naloxone

23

92

Heroin

15

60

Vint or jeff (methamphetamine and methcathinone)

12

48

Participants reporting marijuana usage

24

96

 

N

%

Ever been in a Methadone/Buprenorphine + naloxone program

Yes, still in the program

1

2

Yes, but not anymore

4

8

No

43

90

IDU in the last 30 days

Yes

25

52

No

23

48

Shared needles in the last 30 days

Yes

3

12

No

21

88

Sexual practices (for those who had sex in the past 6 months only, N = 95)

 

N

%

Number of male sexual partners (women)

1

26

90

 > 1

3

10

Number of female sexual partners (men)

1

25

38

 > 1

41

62

Receiving money for sex

Yes

1

94

No

94

99

Paying money for sex

Yes

21

22

No

74

78

Condom use when having sex

Always

35

37

Not always

60

63

  1. *PWID people who inject drugs
  2. **IDU injection drug use