HIV risk behaviours among female prostitute drug injectors in Glasgow

Addiction. 1993 Nov;88(11):1561-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1993.tb03142.x.

Abstract

This paper focuses upon HIV-related risk behaviours of 51 female drug injecting prostitutes, interviewed as part of a serial cross-sectional study of injecting drug users in Glasgow. Forty-five per cent injected with used needles and syringes in the 6 months prior to interview. Condom use in private sexual relations was low with only 9% of those with primary partners and 22% of those with casual partners reporting consistent use of condoms with these partners. In contrast, use of condoms for all commercial sexual encounters was almost universal. Prevalence of HIV was 2.2%. Despite this low prevalence, we conclude that the level of injecting-related and private sexual risk behaviours reported here requires the continuing monitoring of drug injecting prostitutes in Glasgow.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Condoms / statistics & numerical data
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Female
  • HIV Seropositivity / epidemiology*
  • Humans
  • Prevalence
  • Risk-Taking*
  • Sex Work*
  • Sexual Behavior
  • Substance Abuse, Intravenous / epidemiology*
  • United Kingdom