Behavioural Surveillance Surveys - The Wisdom of Whores

FHI 2000 HIV/AIDS/STD BEHAVIORAL SURVEILLANCE SURVEY (BSS) FOR IDUs
Section 3: Needle and sharing behaviors (continued)
No. Questions and filters Coding categories Skip to
Q311B Do you know of any person or YES 1
place from which you can obtain NO 2 → Q312
new, unused needles and syringes? DON’T KNOW 8
NO RESPONSE 9
Q311C
Where can you obtain new,
unused needles and syringes ?
DO NOT READ OUT LIST. YES NO
MULTIPLE ANSWERS POSSIBLE.
PROBE ONLY WITH
“ANYWHERE ELSE?”
Pharmacist/chemist 1 2
Drugstore/other shop 1 2
Health worker 1 2
Hospital 1 2
Drug worker/drug agency 1 2
Family/relatives 1 2
Sexual partner 1 2
Friends 1 2
Other drug users 1 2
Drug dealer 1 2
Needle exchange program 1 2
Theft from legitimate source 1 2
Buy on streets 1 2
Other___________________ 1 2
Q312 In the past one month, did you YES 1
ever inject with a pre-filled syringe NO 2
(by that I mean a syringe that was DON’T KNOW 8
filled without your witnessing it) ? NO RESPONSE 9
Q313 In the past one month, how often EVERY TIME 1
did you inject drugs using a ALMOST EVERY TIME 2
syringe after someone else had SOMETIMES 3
squirted drugs into it from his/her NEVER 4
used syringe (frontloading/ DON’T KNOW 8
backloading/splitting) ? NO RESPONSE 9
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