Socio-Economic Status Determines Risk of Receptive Syringe Sharing Behaviors among Iranian Drug Injectors; A National Study

This study presented factors associated with risk of receptive needle and syringe sharing among Iranian IDUs. This information may be used for HIV prevention and harm reduction purposes. Socio-economic status of Iranian IDUs may be closely linked to high-risk injecting behaviors among them

Environmental health · Family medicine · Harm reduction · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Logistic regression · Needle sharing · Odds ratio · Pathology · Population · Psychiatry · Snowball sampling · Socioeconomic status · Syphilis · Syringe · Demography · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine · Opioid Use Disorder Treatment · Internal Medicine

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