Study on condition of hepatitis A virus infection among drug users and affecting factor

  Objective   To study the condition of hepatitis Ainfection among drug users and the affecting factors, and to offer epidemiologic information for preveotion and control of Hepatitis A.

  Methods   To collect general information of drug users through cluster-sampling and questionnaire investigation.To collect serums from these drug users.Examining the anti -HAV by ELLISA test.Analyzing the data by SPSS10.0.

  Results   Infection of hepatitis A were identified in 514 (66.58%)of 772 drug users as a whole.One-way analysis: The infection rate was highest in the west of Hunan.The infection rate in the group of better education was evidently lower.High hepatitis A infection rate was found in the people who married or remar ried.Logistic analysis: The related factors of the HAV infection were the degree of education, region, marriage, sharing dinning-tool with others.

  Conclusion   Drugusers was a group of hig hrisk of hepatitis A infection.