Nuken Amenla, Kermode Michelle, Saggurti Niranjan, Armstrong Greg, Medhi Gajendra Kumar
Nossal Institute Limited, India Branch, New Delhi, India.
Int J STD AIDS. 2013 Sep;24(9):695-702. doi: 10.1177/0956462413480722. Epub 2013 Jul 19.
This study examines the relationship between alcohol use, HIV status, and condom use among female sex workers in Nagaland, India. We analyzed data from a cross-sectional survey undertaken in 2009, using descriptive and multivariate statistics. Out of 417 female sex workers, one-fifth used alcohol daily and one-tenth were HIV-positive. HIV-positive female sex workers were more likely than HIV-negative female sex workers to consume alcohol daily (30.2% vs. 18.0%). HIV-positive daily alcohol users reported lower condom use at last sex with regular clients compared to HIV-positive non-daily alcohol users (46.2% vs. 79.3%), a relationship not evident among HIV-negative female sex workers. There is a need to promote awareness of synergies between alcohol use and HIV, and to screen for problematic alcohol use among female sex workers in order to reduce the spread of HIV.
本研究调查了印度那加兰邦女性性工作者的饮酒情况、艾滋病毒感染状况与避孕套使用之间的关系。我们分析了2009年进行的一项横断面调查的数据，采用了描述性和多变量统计方法。在417名女性性工作者中，五分之一的人每天饮酒，十分之一的人艾滋病毒呈阳性。艾滋病毒呈阳性的女性性工作者比艾滋病毒呈阴性的女性性工作者更有可能每天饮酒（30.2%对18.0%）。与艾滋病毒呈阳性的非每日饮酒者相比，艾滋病毒呈阳性的每日饮酒者在与固定客户的最后一次性行为中报告的避孕套使用率较低（46.2%对79.3%），这种关系在艾滋病毒呈阴性的女性性工作者中并不明显。有必要提高人们对饮酒与艾滋病毒之间协同作用的认识，并对女性性工作者中存在问题的饮酒行为进行筛查，以减少艾滋病毒的传播。
