Dangerous behaviors among HIV-negative people who inject drugs U.S. 2018| ��ƽ��

Percentage of people in the U.S. who injected drugs and who were HIV-negative, but engaged in select behaviors in the past year as of 2018

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Release date

October 2021

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United States

Survey time period

2018

Number of respondents

9,639 respondents

Special properties

People who inject drugs in 23 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs)

Supplementary notes

* Receptive syringe sharing was defined as “using needles that someone else had already injected with,” and receptive injection equipment sharing was defined as using equipment such as cookers, cottons, or water used to rinse needles or prepare drugs “that someone else had already used.” Condomless vaginal or anal sex was defined as “sex without a condom.”

Figures include data from 23 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs). These areas included Atlanta, Georgia; Baltimore, Maryland; Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; Denver, Colorado; Detroit, Michigan; Houston, Texas; Los Angeles, California; Memphis, Tennessee; Miami, Florida; Nassau-Suffolk, New York; New Orleans, Louisiana; New York, New York; Newark, New Jersey; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Portland, Oregon; San Diego, California; San Francisco, California; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Seattle, Washington; Virginia Beach, Virginia; Washington, District of Columbia.

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This statistic presents the percentage of people in the U.S. who injected drugs and who were HIV negative, but engaged in behaviors associated with HIV infection in the past 12 months as of 2018. During that year, ** percent of people who injected drugs and were HIV-negative practiced receptive syringe sharing.