Reports on HIV/AIDS: 1990

JUNE 15, 1990, MMWR, Vol. 39, No. 23, pp. 385-389, 395-397
TABLE 3. Percentage of students who reported ever having used intravenous (IV)
drugs or ever having shared needles for injecting drugs, by sex - selected U.S. sites,
1989

IV-drug use (%) Sharing needles (%)
Sex Sex
Total Female Male Total Female Male

Site
State/Territory
California^*
Colorado*
Delaware:
District
of Columbia'**
Hawaii":
Iowa'
Massachusetts*
Michigant
Missourit
New Jersey*
New Mexico'
North Carolinas
Ohio'
Oklahoma'
Oregont
Pennsylvania*'
Puerto Rico'
Tennessee'
Virgin Islands'

2.3
3.0
3.8
2.6
4.9
3.7
1.6
4.0
2.4
2.9
2.8
2.4
2.2
5.1
5.4
3.8
1.5
3.2
4.1
3.0
3.6
2.2
3.5
2.7
2.9

1.1
2.3
2.8
1.5
2.9
2.2
0.9
1.8
0.7
1.5
1.4
1.7
1.5
3.5
3.6
2.6
1.1
2.1
2.7
2.0
4.9
1.1
2.1
2.2
2.2

3.9
3.9
4.9
3.9
6.7
5.3
2.3
6.2
4.3
4.1
4.6
3.2
3.0
6.7
7.1
5.0
1.9
4.6
5.6
4.0
2.3
3.2
5.9
3.2
3.6

1.0
0.9
1.7
0.9
2.0
1.8
0.5
1.3
1.3
0.7
0.5
1.3
0.6
1.7
2.8
0.8
0.2
0.9
2.4
0.7
0.7
0.7
1.9
1.3
0.9

0.3
0.8
1.3
0.2
1.0
1.4
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.0
0.2
0.9
0.3
1.1
1.5
0.4
0.0
0.4
1.5
0.3
0.5
0.5
1.6
0.5
0.9

1.8
0.9
2.0
1.7
3.0
2.2
0.9
2.3
2.1
1.3
1.2
1.6
0.9
2.2
4.0
1.3
0.5
1.4
3.3
1.1
0.8
0.9
2.5
2.3
1.0

City
Dallas '
Jersey City'
Miami
San Diego'
San Francisco5
Seattlet

*Surveys did not include students from the largest cities.
tProbability sample, unweighted data.
"Nonprobability sample, unweighted data.
"Probability sampic, weighted data.
**Categorized as a state for funding purposes.

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