HIV and hepatitis C Virus in internally displaced people with and without injection drug use experience in the region of Shida Kartli, Georgia
The average age of participants was 37.5 years (range 18-63); 31% were women. Almost half (N = 48) of participants reported ever injecting drugs; 17% of those (N = 8) started injecting drugs within the last year. Anti-HCV and HIV prevalence was 11% and 0%, respectively. Fewer people without drug use experience compared to people who inject drugs correctly answered all questions on the HIV knowledge test (13% vs. 35%, p = 0.015) or knew where to get tested for HIV (67% vs 98%, p < 0.001). There was no difference in HCV knowledge between the two groups. HIV and HCV prevalence remains low among Georgian IDPs, but levels of HIV knowledge were much lower than levels of HCV knowledge.
Authors
- Ganna Kovalenko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4929-0841)
- Ana Aslanikashvili (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9311-2495)
- Britt Skaathun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8780-3612)
- Maka Gogia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1476-0812)
- A Trovato
- Tetyana I. Vasylyeva (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9736-7022)
- Tamuna Kasrashvili
- Anna Yakovleva
Institutions
- National Center for Disease Control and Public Health (GE)
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- San Diego State University (US)
- UC San Diego Health System (US)
- University of California System (US)
- University of California San Diego (US)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- UC Irvine Health (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Research Notes
- Published
- 2024-10-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-024-06891-9
- Primary Topic
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Wellcome Trust
- Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science
- National Institutes of Health