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Table 3b Demographics

From: Using standardized methods for research on HIV and injecting drug use in developing/transitional countries: case study from the WHO Drug Injection Study Phase II

  

Eastern Europe

South America

  

Kharkiv

Minsk

St. Petersburg

Bogota

Gran Rosario

Rio de Janeiro

Santos

  

n = 438

n = 400

n = 400

n = 301

n = 605

n = 586

n = 362

Female

 

26%

23%

26%

21%

23%

9%

18%

Age

Mean (SD)

25 (5)

24 (5)

24 (5)

24 (7)

28 (8)

32 (10)

29(10)

 

Median

24

23

23

22

27

30

27

 

< 25 yrs.

55%

63%

63%

65%

43%

29%

38%

Ethnicity

 

71% Ukrainian 24% Russian

75% Belarussian 17% Russian

96% Russian

97% Mestizo

69% White 24% Mestizo

48% White 32% Mulatto 20% Black

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