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The average period of injecting was 8.5 years; 62.5% reported past-year sharing needles or injection equipment, and 8.0% shared with a known HIV-positive person. More than half (51.1%) reported multiple sexual partners, 12.9% buying or selling sex, and 10.5% exchanging sex and drugs in the past year. Those who shared with HIV positive partners were 3.4 times more likely to be HIV positive than those who did not. Those who front- or back-loaded were 4 times more likely to be HCV positive than those who did not.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>Harm reduction, addiction treatment and HIV prevention programs should address risk factors to stop further spread of both HIV and HCV among IDUs and to the general population in central Ukraine.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/1477-7517-6-23","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,8,25]],"date-time":"2009-08-25T06:14:21Z","timestamp":1251180861000},"update-policy":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":28,"title":["HIV and hepatitis C virus infections among hanka injection drug users in central Ukraine: a cross-sectional survey"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"6","author":[{"given":"Kostyantyn V","family":"Dumchev","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ruslan","family":"Soldyshev","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Han-Zhu","family":"Qian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Olexandr O","family":"Zezyulin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Susan D","family":"Chandler","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Pavel","family":"Slobodyanyuk","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Larisa","family":"Moroz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Joseph E","family":"Schumacher","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2009,8,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"154_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"16","DOI":"10.1186\/1477-7517-2-16","volume":"2","author":"K Barcal","year":"2005","unstructured":"Barcal K, Schumacher JE, Dumchev K, Moroz LV: A situational picture of HIV\/AIDS and injection drug use in Vinnitsya, Ukraine. 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