Design and baseline findings of a large-scale rapid response to an HIV outbreak in people who inject drugs in Athens, Greece: the ARISTOTLE programme.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To (i) describe an intervention implemented in response to the HIV-1 outbreak among people who inject drugs (PWIDs) in Greece (ARISTOTLE programme), (ii) assess its success in identifying and testing this population and (iii) describe socio-demographic characteristics, risk behaviours and access to treatment/prevention, estimate HIV prevalence and identify risk factors, as assessed at the first participation of PWIDs.

Design

A 'seek, test, treat, retain' intervention employing five rounds of respondent-driven sampling.

Setting

Athens, Greece (2012-13).

Participants

A total of 3320 individuals who had injected drugs in the past 12 months.

Intervention

ARISTOTLE is an intervention that involves reaching out to high-risk, hard-to-reach PWIDs ('seek'),

SUBMITTER: Hatzakis A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4854521 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature