《Association between Macroscopicfactors and Identified HIVAIDS Cases among Injecting Drug UsersAn Analysis Using Geographically Weighted Regression Model》.pdfVIP

Biomed Environ Sci, 2014; 27(4): 311-318 311 Policy Forum Association between Macroscopic-factors and Identified HIV/AIDS Cases among Injecting Drug Users: An Analysis Using Geographically Weighted Regression Model* 1,† 1,† 1 1 1 XING Jian Nan , GUO Wei , QIAN Sha Sha , DING Zheng Wei , CHEN Fang Fang , 2 1 1,# PENG Zhi Hang , QIN Qian Qian , and WANG Lu Drug use (DU), particularly injecting drug use behaviors of the interviewed cases were collected (IDU) has been the main route of transmission and based on CRF. And the most likely route of HIV spread of Human Immunodeficiency Virus infections was judged by healthcare personnel (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) according to the history of their high risk behaviors. among injecting drug users (IDUs)[1]. Previous By collecting demographic information of people studies have proven that needles or cottons sharing living with HIV/AIDS, CRS provided both the number during drug injection were major risk factors for of HIV/AIDS cases and the time and their spatial HIV/AIDS transmission at the personal level[2-4] . distribution, which enabled us to explore the spatial Being a social behavioral issue, HIV/AIDS related distribution characteristics of HIV/AIDS cases among