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Correction: Injection drug use practices and HIV infection among people who inject drugs in Kigali, Rwanda: a cross-sectional study

Harm Reduction Journal volume 19, Article number: 91 (2022) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 15 December 2021

Correction to: Harm Reduction Journal (2021) 18:130 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-021-00579-0


Following the publication of the original article [1], There is a typo error, under Results heading.


Incorrect text is:


The prevalence of HIV in this group was 9.5% (95% CI 8.7–9.3).


Correct text is:


The prevalence of HIV in this group was 9.5% (95% CI 6.6–13.3).


Also in Table 4, there is an error on the label of the categories of the variable named: “sharing other drug paraphernalia in the previous 6 months”. The correct table is shown below:

Table 4 Factors associated with needle sharing in the six months preceding the study among PWID in Kigali, Rwanda, N:307
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  1. Department of Epidemiology, Key Populations Program, Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe Street E 7133, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA

    Jean Olivier Twahirwa Rwema, Neia M. Prata, Lisa Lucas, Chris Beyrer & Stefan D. Baral

  2. Health Development Initiative, Kigali, Rwanda

    Vianney Nizeyimana, Sulemani Muhirwa, Athanase Rukundo & Aflodis Kagaba

  3. School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Nneoma E. Okonkwo

  4. Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Amelia A. Mazzei

  5. Projet San Francisco, Kigali, Rwanda

    Amelia A. Mazzei

  6. Département de Psychiatrie, Service d’addictologie, Hôpitaux Universitaire de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland

    Audace Niyigena

  7. School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Jean Damascene Makuza

  8. BC Center for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Jean Damascene Makuza

  9. Rwanda Biomedical Center, Kigali, Rwanda

    Jean Damascene Makuza

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Rwema, J.O.T., Nizeyimana, V., Prata, N.M. et al. Correction: Injection drug use practices and HIV infection among people who inject drugs in Kigali, Rwanda: a cross-sectional study. Harm Reduct J 19, 91 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-022-00674-w

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