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Elevated rates of HIV infection among young Aboriginal injection drug users in a Canadian setting

Harm Reduction Journal BioMedCentral Research Open Access Elevated rates of HIV infection among young Aboriginal injection drug users in a Canadian setting Cari L Miller*1, Steffanie A Strathdee2, Patricia M Spittal1,3, Thomas Kerr1,4, Kathy Li1, Martin T Schechter1,2 and Evan Wood1,4 Address: 1British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, Canada, 2University of California School of Medicine, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Division of International Health Cross-Cultural Medicine, San Diego, USA, 3University of British Columbia, Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, Vancouver, Canada and 4University of British Columbia, Faculty of Medicine, Vancouver, Canada Email: Cari L Miller* - cmiller@cfenet.ubc.ca; Steffanie A Strathdee - sstrathdee@; Patricia M Spittal - pspittal@cfenet.ubc.ca; Thomas Kerr - tkerr@cfenet.ubc.ca; Kathy Li - kathyli@cfenet.ubc.ca; Martin T Schechter - martin.schechter@ubc.ca; Evan Wood - ewood@cfenet.ubc.ca * Corresponding author Published: 08 March 2006 Received: 16 September 2005 Accepted: 08 March 2006 Harm Reduction Journal2006, 3:9 doi:10.1186/1477-7517-3-9 This article is available from: /content/3/1/9 ? 2006Miller et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Objectives: Recent reports have suggested that Aboriginal and American Indian people are at elevated risk of HIV infection. We undertook the present study to compare socio-demographic and risk variables between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal young (aged 13 – 24 years) injection drug users (IDUs) and characterize the burden of HIV infection among young Aboriginal IDUs. Methods: We compared socio-demographic and risk variables between Aboriginal and non- Aboriginal y