Limited Risk Compensation Among Women Who Inject Drugs: Results From the Project Sexual Health Equity Preexposure Prophylaxis Demonstration Study in Philadelphia

Nguyen K Tran; Barbara Van Der Pol; Roman Shrestha; Angela R Bazzi; Scarlett L Bellamy; Susan G Sherman; Alexis M Roth

doi:10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001577

Limited Risk Compensation Among Women Who Inject Drugs: Results From the Project Sexual Health Equity Preexposure Prophylaxis Demonstration Study in Philadelphia

Sex Transm Dis. 2022 May 1;49(5):e64-e66. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001577. Epub 2021 Oct 25.

Authors

Nguyen K Tran¹, Barbara Van Der Pol², Roman Shrestha³, Angela R Bazzi, Scarlett L Bellamy¹, Susan G Sherman, Alexis M Roth⁴

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.
² Division of Infectious Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL.
³ Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
⁴ Department of Community Health and Prevention, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.

Abstract

The impact of preexposure prophylaxis uptake on sexual and injection-related behaviors among women who inject drugs is poorly understood. Over 24 weeks, preexposure prophylaxis uptake among women who inject drugs was associated with increased sharing of injection equipment but not syringes and no changes in condomless sex, providing limited evidence of risk compensation in this vulnerable population.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Female
HIV Infections* / epidemiology
Health Equity*
Humans
Male
Philadelphia / epidemiology
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis*
Sexual Behavior
Substance Abuse, Intravenous* / epidemiology

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding