Pronin A.Yu., Drobyshevskaya E.V., Zhukova E.V., Shilova V.A., Pit V.V., Bakulin M.S. Awareness of key risk groups among the population of the Moscow region on hiv infection (data from the final observations). Public health and health care. 2024;3(82):31-43.

Abstract

The main topic of the article is to determine the awareness of key risk groups (groups of people who use drugs – PUD and commercial sex workers – CSW) among the population of the Moscow Region on HIV infection. The team of authors was tasked with studying moral, behavioral attitudes and related features of health-saving behavior, so that it would be possible to take timely measures to prevent the growth of the disease in the studied groups. The aim was to assess the level of awareness of key risk groups among the population of the Moscow Region on HIV infection, testing and classifi cation of observation results. Methods of work are personal observation by questioning key risk groups, testing the population of these groups, methods of data analysis – correlation, regression and factor analysis. The results of the study were an array of data, including encoded indicators, data indicating the test result, linear and cross-sectional distributions of the fi nal data. Scope of application: current activity of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, centers for the prevention and control of AIDS and infectious diseases, and other medical facilities. Brief conclusions showed that people who use drugs are generally better informed about the features of HIV infection, among them more than half of the respondents have a high level of awareness, while among commercial sex workers, only a third of the respondents showed such a result. At the same time, attitudes of risky and health-saving behavior in both groups are shared by similar proportions of respondents.