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September 10, 2025BMC Public HealthOpen Access

A look beyond the needle: high prevalence of injecting risk behaviours among people who inject drugs in Zanzibar

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SKStephen M. KibusiKMK MohamedESElihuruma Eliufoo Stephano

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Overview

Cross-sectional study reveals high-risk injecting behaviour prevalence in PWID, indicating urgent treatment needs.

Key Points

  • Over half of participants, 50.5%, engaged in high-risk injecting behaviours, increasing HIV transmission risk.
  • Key behaviours included sharing needles (53.2%) and using used needles (40.5%).
  • Multivariate logistic regression identified age and living in low-spot areas as significant predictors of high-risk behaviours.
  • Findings emphasize the urgent need for tailored health interventions for PWIDs to reduce risk behaviors.

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Kibusi et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c23fc3b210217d64797ffbhttps://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-21724-5
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