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Local data for local programming: Results from an HIV biobehavioral survey among people who inject drugs in Livingstone, Lusaka, and Ndola, Zambia, 2021 — Europe PMC PMID:40424303

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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0323919
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Local data for local programming: Results from an HIV biobehavioral survey among people who inject drugs in Livingstone, Lusaka, and Ndola, Zambia, 2021 — Europe PMC PMID:40424303 — Europe PMC (en), https://europepmc.org/article/MED/40424303 (CC0-1.0); archived copy: https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_b151c67b4e4e (Metraipolis archive dc_b151c67b4e4e, sha256 50841e584298b5f3ba1b86e3081664ebe4a26e7a888cc7bd2eb1d50f0f893b96)

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@misc{dcb151c67b4e4e,
  title = {Local data for local programming: Results from an HIV biobehavioral survey among people who inject drugs in Livingstone, Lusaka, and Ndola, Zambia, 2021 — Europe PMC PMID:40424303},
  howpublished = {Europe PMC (en)},
  url = {https://europepmc.org/article/MED/40424303},
  note = {License CC0-1.0; archived copy https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_b151c67b4e4e; sha256 50841e584298b5f3ba1b86e3081664ebe4a26e7a888cc7bd2eb1d50f0f893b96},
  year = {2026}
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Introduction: People who inject drugs (PWID) in Zambia are an understudied population at high risk for HIV acquisition and transmission. We report here on the progress within the PWID communities of Livingstone, Lusaka, and Ndola, Zambia towards the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 95-95-95 targets. Methods: A biobehavioral survey used respondent-driven sampling to survey 235 PWID in Livingstone, 349 in Lusaka, and 259 in Ndola in 2021-22. Questions on HIV and injection drug use were administered, and blood was collected for HIV, syphilis, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C testing. Weighted prevalence and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated using Gile's sequential sampling estimator. Results: In Livingstone, Lusaka, and Ndola, HIV prevalence among PWID was 11.9% (95% CI: 7.3, 16.5), 7.3% (95% CI: 4.5, 10.2), and 21.9% (95% CI: 14.5, 29.3), respectively. Among HIV-positive PWID in Livingstone, 70.7% (95% CI: 55.4, 85.0) were aware of their HIV status (95% is 1st UNAIDS target), 100% of those were on antiretroviral therapy (ART) (95% is 2nd UNAIDS target), and 100% of those achieved viral load suppression (VLS) (95% is 3rd UNAIDS target). In Lusaka, 66.0% (95% CI: 49.3, 82.2) were aware, 75.7% (95% CI: 51.1, 99.9) were on ART, and 66.3% (95% CI: 42.1, 90.9) achieved VLS. In Ndola, 60.2% (95% CI: 44.1, 76.0), 100%, and 90.2% (95% CI: 82.2, 98.3) were aware, on ART, and achieved VLS, respectively. Conclusions: Awareness of HIV status was low among PWID living in Livingstone, Lusaka, and Ndola, Zambia. Treatment and VLS progress were lacking in Lusaka and Ndola as well with Lusaka showing the least progress toward all three UNAIDS targets. Our site-level findings highlight critical gaps in PWID-specific HIV awareness, treatment, and VLS status in three major urban areas in Zambia that limit progress toward HIV epidemic control in this hard-to-reach population.

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Pubblicazione: PloS one, 2025 (prima pubblicazione 2025-05-27).
Identificativi: PMID 40424303 · PMCID PMC12111603 · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0323919.
Descrittori MeSH principali: HIV Infections; Substance Abuse, Intravenous.
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