Table 2 Characteristics of sample in 10 cities of Georgia, 2015
Characteristics | NSP N = 1032 % | PDI N = 1939 % | p values |
|---|---|---|---|
Demographics | |||
 Age | |||
  = < 25 | 4.5 | 17.7 | 0.00 |
  = > 26 | 95.5 | 82.3 | |
 Gender | |||
  Male | 88.5 | 90.7 | 0.05 |
  Female | 11.5 | 9.3 | |
 Education | |||
  Incomplete or complete secondary | 43.2 | 46.9 | 0.12 |
  Higher education, complete or incomplete | 42.3 | 38.6 | |
  College or professional institution/ or incomplete | 14.5 | 14.5 | |
 City of residence | |||
  Tbilisi | 24.8 | 38.4 | 0.00 |
  Rustavi | 7.3 | 9.9 | |
  Gori | 6.8 | 4.7 | |
  Batumi | 6.8 | 7.1 | |
  Ozurgeti | 14.5 | 8.8 | |
  Kutaisi | 6.8 | 8.5 | |
  Samtredia | 5.7 | 7.8 | |
  Poti | 13.6 | 7.3 | |
  Zugdidi | 7.9 | 5.9 | |
  Telavi | 5.8 | 1.5 | |
 Employment | |||
  Unemployed | 47.0 | 60.1 | 0.00 |
  Employed | 53.0 | 39.9 | |
 Place of residence | |||
  Own housing | 39.7 | 28.6 | 0.00 |
  Parents/relative/friends housing | 50.6 | 58.1 | |
  Rent/Mortgage/shelter/homeless | 9.7 | 13.3 | |
Drug use behaviour | |||
 Age at first injecting drug | |||
  Mean | 20.5 | 19.6 | 0.00 |
 Years of injection | |||
  Mean | 14.8 | 12.7 | 0.00 |
 Frequency of Drug injection during last 30 days | |||
  Mean | 9.12 | 9.3 | 0.55 |
 Safe Injection practice during the last 6 months | |||
  Never shared Injection equipment or syringes | 49.2 | 34.1 | 0.00 |
 Never using syringes previously used by others during the last 6 months | |||
  Never shared | 65.5 | 44.7 | 0.00 |
 Never giving others previously used syringes by him/herself during the last 6 months | |||
  Never shared | 62.6 | 44.2 | 0.00 |
 Sharing practice with someone they knew had AIDS during the last 6 months | |||
  Never | 96.1 | 96.6 | 0.03 |
  Few times or less | 3.4 | 2.2 | |
  Few times each month | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
  Once or more each week | 0 | 0.7 | |
  No response | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
 More usable (injected) drugs | |||
  Desomorphine (crocodile) | 27.7 | 16.1 | 0.00 |
  Heroin, sirets | 45.4 | 53.1 | 0.00 |
  Street methadone | 7.1 | 6.9 | 0.00 |
  Suboxone/Subutex | 24.7 | 29.2 | 0.00 |
  Vint, jeff | 17.7 | 24.0 | 0.00 |
  Tropicamid, Ketamine, Calypso | 7.8 | 9.1 | 0.00 |
  Antihistamines in mixture | 5.6 | 4.0 | 0.00 |
 How did they survive their last overdose? | |||
  Ambulance | 2.8 | 5.6 | 0.37 |
  Salty water injection | 3.1 | 8.2 | |
  Naloxone injection | 13.4 | 6.1 | |
Sex behaviour | |||
 Sexual orientation identity | |||
  Heterosexual | 99.7 | 97.6 | 0.00 |
 Ever exchange of sex for drugs | |||
  Yes | 3.3 | 5.9 | 0.00 |
 Ever exchange of sex for money | |||
  Yes | 16.4 | 20.2 | 0.01 |
 Condom use during the last 6 months | |||
  Did not have sex during the last 6 months | 23.5 | 20.2 | 0.00 |
  Always | 27.7 | 17.7 | |
  Mostly | 31.0 | 39.2 | |
  Sometimes | 14.1 | 17.2 | |
  Never | 0.1 | 0 | |
  No response | 3.5 | 5.6 | |
HIV testing practice and knowledge | |||
 Tested on HIV | |||
  Never tested | 20.4 | 70.2 | 0.00 |
 Knows HIV status* | |||
  Yes | 97.9 | 89.8 | 0.00 |
 HIV testing period* | |||
  During the last month | 9.5 | 3.5 | 0.00 |
  During the last 6 months | 49.1 | 18.4 | |
  During more than 1 year | 40.6 | 76.9 | |
  No response | 0.9 | 1.2 | |
 HIV knowledge▪ | |||
  Yes | 75.2 | 53.0 | 0.00 |