African-American women reported injecting least frequently and had lower rates of injecting with borrowed or used syringes. Women attending syringe exchange reported high levels of sexual risk behavior, and syringe exchange provides an opportunity for a sexual risk reduction intervention. American, compared with white or Latina. The profile of African-American women attending syringe exchange in New York City suggests a higher level of stabilization than is found in the other groups of women.
White women appear to be more socially isolated and to engage in higher risk behaviors.
Although women attending New York City syringe exchange programs have significantly reduced risky drug injection, consistent with other studies, sexual risk behavior has remained at a high level. Syringe exchange and drug treatment programs have a great opportunity to target drug-injecting women for sexual risk reduction interventions. This site is best viewed with Netscape.