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Central Asia (2006): Injecting Drug Users in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and Tashkent, Uzbekistan: Injecting Histories, Risky Practices, and Barriers to Adopting Behaviors Less Likely to Transmit HIV

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Central Asia (2006): Injecting Drug Users in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and Tashkent, Uzbekistan: Injecting Histories, Risky Practices, and Barriers to Adopting Behaviors Less Likely to Transmit HIV
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/27354
 
Creator PSI/Central Asia
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The purpose of this study with IDUs in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan was to conduct formative research to obtain actionable insight into injecting behaviors of IDUs. Dyad/triad interviews (interviews with either two or three IDUs and one interviewer) were conducted with IDUs to obtain personal drug use histories, explore specific factors influencing initiation into injecting drug use, reveal key motivations for sharing needles and other injecting equipment, identify IDUs attitudes regarding access to injecting equipment, and determine key barriers to adopting safer injecting practices. Thirty two dyads/triads interviews were conducted with 69 participants from three districts in Bishkek and four districts in Tashkent. Informants were between the ages of 18 and 32 and were recruited using snowball sampling: other selection criteria included whether or not IDUs were linked to services and the length of their injecting experience. The qualitative data were analyzed using ATLAS.ti software.
 
Subject Qualitative
Dyads/triads
HIV
IDU
HIV risk behaviors
Needle and syringe
IPC
USAID