Risk factors | Protective factors |
---|---|
Heroin injection | |
Social | Social |
Lockdown | High awareness of injection-related HIV/HCV risks |
Fear of being arrested by the police when going to buy syringes or drugs | Ease of buying syringes and needles at pharmacies, even during the lockdown |
Economic | Family support |
Higher price of heroin | Social norms around heroin |
 | Hiding one’s drug use status |
 | Policy |
 | Availability of methadone treatment |
 | Physical |
 | Police presence in the street, curfew |
 | Economic |
 | Higher price of heroin |
Group methamphetamine use | |
Social | Social |
Social norms related to meth use | Hiding one’s drug use status |
Physical | Economic |
Having more free time | Reduced income |
Effects of meth | Â |
Sexual behaviors | |
Social | Social |
Fear of COVID-19 infection | High awareness of HIV risk sexual behaviors |
Physical | Â |
Curfew, social distancing | Â |
Economic | Â |
Reduced income | Â |