HIV risk behaviours among injecting drug users in Northeast India following scale-up of a targeted HIV prevention programme

Table 4 Association between programme exposure and HIV risk behaviours of IDUs at follow-up (2009)

	Shared needles / syringes at last injection	Shared needles / syringes during the past month	Condom last sex (regular partner)^a	Condom last sex (casual partner)^b	HIV test
	Manipur
Accessed NGO services in last 6 months	0.51 (0.14 - 1.90)	0.35** (0.17 - 0.74)	3.00** (1.45 - 6.22)	1.19 (0.44 - 3.26)	1.52 (0.88 - 2.63)
Registered with an ORCHID NGO	0.47 (0.16 - 1.29)	0.59 (0.32 - 1.08)	2.75*** (1.63 - 4.64)	1.49 (0.78 - 3.00)	1.49* (1.01 - 2.19)
Usually obtain needles from NSP	0.42 (0.15 - 1.17)	0.32*** (0.18 - 0.57)	2.94*** (1.77 - 4.91)	0.66 (0.32 - 1.36)	1.62* (1.10 - 2.39)
	Nagaland
Accessed NGO services in last 6 months	0.53** (0.35 - 0.79)	0.78 (0.52 - 1.15)	1.15 (0.69 - 1.92)	3.98** (1.80 - 8.76)	1.27 (0.87 - 1.85)
Registered with an ORCHID NGO	0.57** (0.41 - 0.87)	0. 63* (0.44 - 0.90)	1.87* (1.13 – 3.07)	1.61 (0.86 – 2.98)	0.89 (0.64 - 1.25)
Usually obtain needles from NSP	0.67* (0.46 - 0.98)	0.96 (0.68 - 1.42)	1.35 (0.83 - 2.19)	2.75** (1.35 – 6.00)	0.77 (0.55 - 1.10)

^a Only IDUs who had a regular partner were included in this analysis; 422 in Manipur, 486 in Nagaland.
^b Only IDUs who had a casual partner were included in this analysis; 246 in Manipur, 313 in Nagaland.
* p<0.05, ** p<0.01, *** p<0.001.
Note: Odds ratios were adjusted for the following variables; district, age, ever been married, literacy, age at initiation into injecting drug use, most commonly used drug, and frequency of drug use during the previous week.

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