The syringe gap: an assessment of sterile syringe need and acquisition among syringe exchange program participants in New York City

Table 3 Inadequate syringe coverage: multivariable logistic regression results*

	Adjusted Odds Ratio	95% Confidence Interval
Race/ethnicity
Black/African American	3.0	1.5, 6.2
Latino/Hispanic	2.5	1.3, 4.8
White/Caucasian	Ref
Gender
Male	1.6	1.0, 2.6
Age group
19–25 years	6.3	1.2, 32.0
26–35 years	1.7	0.9, 3.1
36–45 years	1.4	0.9, 2.2
>45 years	Ref
Program site
Midtown Manhattan	0.7	0.2, 2.8
Brooklyn	1.8	0.6, 5.4
Harlem	1.7	0.6, 4.6
Lower East Side	4.1	1.4, 12.1
Bronx	2.8	1.0, 7.9
Queens	Ref
Injected in a public place in past month	1.9	1.2, 3.0
Currently homeless	1.6	1.0, 2.5

* 436 observations were used in the analysis, after missing data and low-frequency strata were excluded.

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