HIV risk behaviors of male injecting drug users and associated non-condom use with regular female sexual partners in north-east India

Table 3 Association between needle/syringe sharing, condom use with casual partners, and condom use with regular partners

	Had a regular sexual partner^b		Inconsistent condom use with regular sexual partner^{a, b}
	% ( N)	Adjusted OR (95% CI)^c	% ( N)	Adjusted OR (95% CI)^c
Shared needles/syringes
No	59.8 (1,215)	Ref	86.6 (726)	Ref
Yes	66.1 (495)	1.23 (0.94, 1.61)	94.8 (327)	2.31 (1.30, 4.09)^**
Condom use with casual paid/unpaid sexual partner ^{a, d}
Consistent condom use	61.6 (245)	Ref	66.2 (151)	Ref
No casual paid/unpaid sexual partner	69.9 (1,022)	0.85 (0.61, 1.20)	91.9 (714)	2.87 (1.73, 4.77)^***
Inconsistent condom use	41.9 (445)	0.41 (0.29, 0.59)^***	97.4 (190)	18.14 (6.82, 48.21)^***

Row percentages are presented. OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.
^aInconsistent condom use: did not use a condom consistently in every sexual encounter. ^bRegular sexual partner: main/steady sexual partner (spouse or girlfriend) in the last 12 months. ^cAdjusted for age, marital status, literacy, occupation, age at first injection, frequency of injecting drugs, and state; additionally shared needles/syringes and condom use with casual paid/unpaid sexual partner adjust for each other in this model. ^dCasual paid/unpaid sexual partner: women with whom IDUs had sex in the last 12 months in exchange for cash/drugs/kind and women other than main steady partner/spouse with whom IDUs had sex but did not pay.

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