Open AccessHIV-related risk behaviors among male inmates of Tehran, Iran
Author(s) -
SeyedAhmad SeyedAlinaghi,
Behnam Farhoudi,
Saeed Ghodrati,
Mostafa Hosseini,
Minoo Mohraz,
Ramin Alasvand
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
asian pacific journal of tropical disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.208
H-Index - 33
ISSN - 2222-1808
DOI - 10.1016/s2222-1808(15)61042-8
Subject(s) - prison , medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , drug injection , sexual behavior , psychiatry , demography , environmental health , family medicine , clinical psychology , psychology , criminology , sociology
Objective: To investigate the frequencies and types of HIV-related risk behavior among inmates\udof Tehran, Iran.\udMethods: We used active case finding to assess the prevalence of HIV high risk behaviors. The\udresearch was conducted on male prisoners in the Great Tehran Prison from October 2013 to\udMay 2014.\udResults: Two thousand and fifty (19.5%) from 10 492 prisoners who were admitted to\ud“quarantine” of the prison participated in HIV testing and counseling. Of 2 050 inmates, our\udresults showed that sexual encounters were the most prevalent risky behavior (89.6%) reported\udby the prisoners, followed by tattooing (34.7%) and injection drug use (24.2%).\udConclusions: Although the previous studies reported that the main leading cause of acquiring\udHIV infection in Iranian prisons was injecting drug use, the prevalence of injecting drug use\udwas less than the prevalence of unsafe sexual relationships and tattooing in the present research\udamong the inmates of Tehran