Behavioral and Sero Prevalence Survey among Injecting Drug Users in Eastern Nepal: 2003

The injecting drug users function as a “bridging population” for HIV transmission between a core HIV risk group and the general population. The main objective of this study is to estimate the prevalence of HIV among IDUs and assess their role in the transmission of HIV. The study was conducted in the three districts: Morang, Sunsary and Jhapa of Eastern Nepal. Three hundred and forty-five IDUs were sampled from 23 randomly selected sites, through respondent-driven sampling (RDS).