Drug use and HIV risks among African-American, Mexican-American, and Puerto Rican drug injectors.
This article documents the prevalence of injection-related HIV risk behaviors among a sample of 758 Mexican-American, Puerto Rican, and African-American drug injectors derived from the National Institute on Drug Abuse Cooperative Agreement database. The results show that the two Hispanic subgroups had higher injection-related risks than the African-American group. Further, among Hispanics, Puerto Ricans had higher rates of drug injection than Mexican-Americans, but Mexican-Americans had higher rates of sharing injection paraphernalia than Puerto Ricans. The research suggests that more aggressive HIV/AIDS intervention efforts be targeted to minority injection drug users, especially those that are contextualized by the racial/ethnic group targeted.
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Mexican-American Studies and Research Center, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721-0023, USA.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000209:etiology*; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017058:Mexican Americans / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016485:Needle Sharing; D011647:Puerto Rico / Q000208:ethnology; D012307:Risk Factors; D012309:Risk-Taking; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology