Concordance of risk behavior reporting within HCV serodiscordant injecting partnerships of young injection drug users in San Francisco CA

摘要

IntroductionYoung injection drug users (IDU, under age 30) often inject with other IDU, creating an environment for risk of blood-borne disease transmission through sharing of needles and drug preparation equipment. Epidemiologic studies rely on self reported injection behavior data for measures of transmission risk, therefore we sought to quantify the degree of concordance of reported injecting risk behaviors between injecting dyads.