Document 0959
 DOCN  M9440959
 TI    Demographic, medical history and sexual correlates of HIV seropositive
       methadone maintained women.
 DT    9404
 AU    Ajuluchukwu DC; Brown LS Jr; Crummey FC; Foster KF Sr; Ismail YI;
       Siddiqui N; Evaluation & Research, Division of Medical Services,
       Evaluation &; Research, Addiction Research & Treatment Corporation,
       Brooklyn,; NY 11201.
 SO    J Addict Dis. 1993;12(4):105-20. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/94122218
 AB    Beginning in January 1989, consecutive female admissions to the ARTC
       MMTP Clinics in NYC were interviewed about their medical, drug, sexual
       and social experiences during 6 distinct historical years. Bloods were
       drawn and each sample tested for HIV via ELISA and Western Blot
       analysis. The data for 256 females was analyzed. The sample was
       predominantly Black (56%) and Hispanic (36%). Fifty-four percent (140)
       were between the ages of 31 and 40; 35% (91) were between the ages of 18
       and 30; and 10% (27) were 41 or older. The majority, 179 (69%), had less
       than a high school education, while 79 (31%) had a high school education
       or greater. The seropositivity for this sample of females was 60.4%.
       Aside from the common types of illnesses often seen in gay men infected
       with the HIV virus (i.e., pneumonia, night sweats, sore throat and
       swollen glands) our sample of females presented with symptoms such as
       abnormal discharges from the vagina, infections or abscesses of the
       veins, kidney or bladder infections, bleeding from the bowels and
       hepatitis infections. The most commonly reported risk factors among our
       sample of HIV positive females were sharing injecting materials (38%);
       injecting drugs in the veins (37.2%); dividing an injection (24.3%); and
       blood transfusions (10.9%). Of our HIV positive females, 42 of 97
       (43.3%) reported having sex with a man they shared needles with only one
       time so that having sex with a man who is potentially infected with the
       HIV virus only once may be enough for a female to seroconvert. One
       limitation of this data is that there is no knowledge of when the HIV
       positive women seroconverted. Some of the behaviors reported could be
       due to exposure to AIDS education, and not to the knowledge to their HIV
       serostatus.
 DE    Adolescence  Adult  Blotting, Western  Demography  Ethnic Groups  Female
       Health Promotion  Human  HIV Seropositivity/*COMPLICATIONS/EPIDEMIOLOGY
       Methadone/*THERAPEUTIC USE  Middle Age  New Jersey/EPIDEMIOLOGY  New
       York/EPIDEMIOLOGY  Prevalence  Risk Factors  Sex Behavior  Substance Use
       Disorders/COMPLICATIONS/*DRUG THERAPY  United States/EPIDEMIOLOGY
       Women's Health  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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