@article {10.3844/ajidsp.2005.50.54, article_type = {journal}, title = {Factors Associated with Syringe Sharing Among Users of a Medically Supervised Safer Injecting Facility }, author = {Wood, Evan and Tyndall, Mark W. and Stoltz, Jo-Anne and Small, Will and Lloyd-Smith, Elisa and Zhang, Ruth and Montaner, Julio S.G. and Kerr, Thomas}, volume = {1}, number = {1}, year = {2005}, month = {Mar}, pages = {50-54}, doi = {10.3844/ajidsp.2005.50.54}, url = {https://thescipub.com/abstract/ajidsp.2005.50.54}, abstract = {Vancouver, Canada recently opened a medically supervised safer injecting facility (SIF) in an effort to reduce HIV and overdose risk and public injection drug use. We sought to examine factors associated with syringe sharing among SIF users. SIF users were randomly recruited into a prospective cohort of SIF users known as the Scientific Evaluation of Supervised Injecting (SEOSI) cohort. We examined the prevalence and correlates of used syringe borrowing among baseline HIV-negative participants and used syringe lending among baseline HIV-infected participants. Between 22 March 2004 and 22 October 2004, 479 baseline HIV-negative subjects (48 [10%] syringe borrowing events) and 103 baseline HIV-infected participants (17 [16.5%] syringe lending events) were recruited into the cohort. For baseline HIV negative participants, syringe borrowing was positively associated with public drug use (p}, journal = {American Journal of Infectious Diseases}, publisher = {Science Publications} }