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 |