Syndemic Vulnerability, Sexual and Injection Risk Behaviors, and HIV Continuum of Care Outcomes in HIV-Positive Injection Drug Users

• Published in: AIDS and behavior Vol. 19; no. 4; pp. 684 - 693
• Main Authors: Mizuno, Yuko, Purcell, David W., Knowlton, Amy R., Wilkinson, James D., Gourevitch, Marc N., Knight, Kelly R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston Springer US 01.04.2015; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome; Adult; AIDS; Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active; Cohort Studies; Continuity of Patient Care; Data collection; Drug abuse; Drug use; Female; Health Psychology; Health risks; HIV; HIV Infections - complications; HIV Infections - drug therapy; Human immunodeficiency virus; Humans; Infectious Diseases; Injection; Injections; Logistic Models; Male; Medication Adherence; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Needle Sharing; Original Paper; Psychosocial factors; Public Health; Risk; Risk factors; Risk taking; Sexual behavior; Sexually transmitted diseases; STD; Substance Abuse, Intravenous - complications; Unsafe Sex; Vulnerability; New York; San Francisco California; United States > US; Baltimore Maryland; HIV risk behaviors; HIV continuum of care; HIV-positive injection drug users; Syndemics

Limited investigations have been conducted on syndemics and HIV continuum of care outcomes. Using baseline data from a multi-site, randomized controlled study of HIV-positive injection drug users (n = 1,052), we examined whether psychosocial factors co-occurred, and whether these factors were additi...