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Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics, injecting practices, and sexual risk behaviors of injecting drug users

From: HIV risk behaviors of male injecting drug users and associated non-condom use with regular female sexual partners in north-east India

Characteristics

Manipur N = 836

Nagaland N = 876

Total N = 1,712

 

% ( n)

% ( n)

% ( n)

Age

   

 18–24

28.7 (240)

48.4 (424)

38.8 (664)

 25–29

25.2 (211)

30.4 (266)

27.9 (477)

 30+

46.1 (385)

21.2 (186)

33.4 (571)

Literacy

   

 Illiterate

10.3 (86)

26.6 (233)

18.6 (319)

 Literate

89.7 (750)

73.4 (643)

81.4 (1,393)

Marital status

   

 Never married

58.0 (485)

68.2 (597)

63.2 (1,082)

 Ever married

42.0 (351)

31.8 (279)

36.8 (630)

Employment status

   

 Unemployed

32.5 (272)

45.2 (396)

39.0 (668)

 Student

6.6 (55)

13.1 (115)

9.9 (170)

 Self/salaried employment

20.7 (173)

15.0 (131)

17.8 (304)

 Laborer (agricultural/non-agricultural)

32.9 (275)

22.0 (193)

27.3 (468)

 Small business/trade

5.5 (46)

2.7 (24)

4.1 (70)

 Othersa

1.8 (15)

1.9 (17)

1.9 (32)

Age at first injection (years)

   

  < 18

7.5 (63)

5.0 (44)

6.3 (107)

 18–24

57.8 (483)

71.9 (630)

65.0 (1,113)

 25–29

20.1 (168)

19.5 (171)

19.8 (339)

 30+

14.6 (122)

3.5 (31)

8.9 (153)

Frequency of injecting drugsb

   

 Less frequent

20.0 (167)

64.4 (564)

42.7 (731)

 Frequent

80.0 (669)

35.6 (312)

57.3 (981)

Shared needles/syringes

   

 No

67.1 (561)

74.7 (654)

71.1 (1,215)

 Yes

32.8 (274)

25.3 (221)

29.0 (495)

Had a casual paid/unpaid sexual partnerc

   

 No

65.2 (545)

54.5 (477)

59.7 (1,022)

 Yes

34.8 (291)

45.6 (399)

40.3 (690)

Condom use with casual paid/unpaid sexual partnerc, d, e

   

 Consistent

28.5 (83)

40.6 (162)

35.5 (245)

 Inconsistent

71.5 (208)

59.4 (237)

64.5 (445)

Had a regular sexual partnerf

   

 No

46.9 (392)

30.1 (264)

38.3 (656)

 Yes

53.1 (444)

69.9 (612)

61.7 (1,056)

Condom use with regular sexual partnerd, f, g

   

 Consistent

11.5 (51)

10.3 (63)

10.8 (114)

 Inconsistent

88.5 (393)

89.7 (548)

89.2 (941)

  1. aInclude other occupations such as unskilled labor and selling drugs. bFrequent includes those who injected at least four times in past week; less frequent includes those who injected less than four times in the past week. cCasual paid/unpaid sexual partner: women with whom IDUs had sex in the last 12 months in exchange for cash/drugs/kind and women other than main steady partner/spouse with whom IDUs had sex but did not pay. dConsistent: used condoms in every sexual encounter; inconsistent: did not use condoms consistently in every sexual encounter. eAmong those who had a casual paid/unpaid sexual partner. fRegular sexual partner: main/steady sexual partner (spouse or girlfriend) in the past 12 months. gAmong those who had a regular sexual partner. Sum of the categories may not total to 100 due to missing responses.
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