HIV/AIDS Disease Progression Risk Factors

Pattern/type of non-injection drug use associated with progression to AIDS

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, August 23rd, 2005

The pattern and type of noninjection drug use is associated with HIV progression to AIDS.

In a recent study, researchers in the United States conducted a study "to evaluate the effects of longitudinal patterns and types of non-injection drug use (NIDU) on HIV progression in the highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) era."

Researchers related, "Data was collected semiannually from 1994 to 2002, from 6 U.S. sites, on 1046 HIV+ women as part of a prospective cohort study of the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS). Multivariate Cox proportional hazards modeling was used to estimate relative hazards for developing AIDS and for death by pattern and...

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