The characteristics and recent growth of heroin injecting in a Kenyan coastal town
The characteristics and recent growth of heroin injecting in a Kenyan coastal town
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DOI：
10.1080/16066350410001646605
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发表时间：
2004-02-01
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Hundt, GL
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作者：
Beckerleg, SE;Hundt, GL
本文讨论了在没有官方记录的情况下估计海洛因使用水平和模式的挑战。在肯尼亚的一个沿海城镇进行的人种学实地调查利用了一系列定性研究方法，试图估计男性和女性吸毒者的人数以及其中注射海洛因者的比例。据估计，在这个至少有85 000人的城镇中，可能有600名海洛因使用者，其中约30名是妇女。男性与女性使用者的比例估计为20：1。据估计，该镇50%的吸毒者是海洛因注射者。他们的注射技术很差，经常共用设备，对注射吸毒与艾滋病毒感染之间的联系认识不足。会议确定迫切需要制定减少危害战略。
This article discusses the challenges of estimating levels and patterns of heroin use in a setting where there were no official records. Ethnographic fieldwork, carried out in a Kenyan Coastal town, utilised a range of qualitative research methods in an attempt to estimate numbers of male and female users and the proportion of them who were injectors of heroin. In the town of at least 85 000 people, it was estimated that there were perhaps about 600 heroin users, of whom about 30 were women. The ratio of male to female users was estimated to be 20 : 1. Fifty per cent of users in the town were estimated to be injectors of heroin. They were found to have poor injecting techniques, to share equipment from time to time and to have low awareness of the link between injecting drug use and HIV infection. An urgent need for harm reduction strategies was identified.