PMID- 32959609
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210820
LR  - 20210820
IS  - 2210-6014 (Electronic)
IS  - 2210-6006 (Print)
IS  - 2210-6006 (Linking)
VI  - 11
IP  - 1
DP  - 2021 Mar
TI  - Estimated Number of People who Inject Drugs in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: 
      Findings from a Two-survey Capture-Recapture Population Size Estimation Exercise.
PG  - 76-82
LID - 10.2991/jegh.k.200615.001 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: HIV/AIDS program managers in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam have 
      always relied on the police reports and the UNAIDS Estimation and Projection 
      Package for population size estimation of People Who Inject Drugs (PWID). 
      METHODS: We used Respondent-driven Sampling (RDS) to implement a two-source 
      capture-recapture study to estimate the population size of PWID in HCMC in 2017. 
      The study was implemented in seven out of 24 districts and included men and women 
      ages 18 years and older who reported injecting illicit drugs in the last 90 days, 
      and who had lived in the city for the past six months. Estimates of the PWID 
      population size for each of the seven districts were calculated accounting for 
      the RDS sampling design. These were then adjusted to account for the district 
      sampling probabilities to give an estimate for HCMC. Chapman two-source 
      capture-recapture estimates of population size, based on simple random sampling 
      assumptions, were also calculated for comparison. RESULTS: The estimates resulted 
      in a population size for HCMC of 19,155 [95% Confidence Interval (CI): 
      17,006-25,039] using the RDS approach and 17,947 (95% CI: 15,968-19,928), using 
      the Chapman approach. CONCLUSION: The two-survey capture-recapture exercise 
      provided estimates of PWID in HCMC - based on Chapman estimator and RDS approach 
      - are similar. For planning HIV prevention and care service needs among PWID in 
      HCMC, both estimates may need to be taken into consideration together with size 
      estimates from other sources.
CI  - (c) 2020 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press International B.V.
FAU - Van Khuu, Nghia
AU  - Van Khuu N
AD  - Department of HIV/AIDS, Pasteur Institute of Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, 
      Vietnam.
FAU - Nguyen, Phuc Duy
AU  - Nguyen PD
AD  - Department of HIV/AIDS, Pasteur Institute of Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, 
      Vietnam.
FAU - Le, Giang Tong
AU  - Le GT
AD  - Program Development Office, United States Agency for International Development, 
      Hanoi, Vietnam.
FAU - Luong, Hoa Thi Yen
AU  - Luong HTY
AD  - Division of Global HIV and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and 
      Prevention, Hanoi, Vietnam.
FAU - Tieu, Van Thi Thu
AU  - Tieu VTT
AD  - Department of HIV Prevention, Ho Chi Minh City Provincial AIDS Committee, Ho Chi 
      Minh City, Vietnam.
FAU - Tran, Hau Phuc
AU  - Tran HP
AD  - Department of HIV/AIDS, Pasteur Institute of Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, 
      Vietnam.
FAU - Nguyen, Thuong Vu
AU  - Nguyen TV
AD  - Department of HIV/AIDS, Pasteur Institute of Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, 
      Vietnam.
FAU - Morgan, Meade
AU  - Morgan M
AD  - Division of Global HIV and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and 
      Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
FAU - Abdul-Quader, Abu S
AU  - Abdul-Quader AS
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7502-3520
AD  - Division of Global HIV and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and 
      Prevention, Hanoi, Vietnam.
LA  - eng
GR  - U2G GH001628/GH/CGH CDC HHS/United States
GR  - PEPFAR/PEPFAR/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
DEP - 20200619
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - J Epidemiol Glob Health
JT  - Journal of epidemiology and global health
JID - 101592084
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Cities/epidemiology
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Population Density
MH  - *Substance Abuse, Intravenous/epidemiology
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Vietnam/epidemiology
MH  - Young Adult
PMC - PMC7958280
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Ho Chi Minh City
OT  - Population size estimation
OT  - Vietnam
OT  - people who inject drugs
OT  - respondent-driven sampling
COIS- The authors declare they have no conflicts of interest.
EDAT- 2020/09/23 06:00
MHDA- 2021/08/21 06:00
PMCR- 2021/03/01
CRDT- 2020/09/22 05:48
PHST- 2020/03/20 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/05/29 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/09/23 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/08/21 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/09/22 05:48 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/03/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - jegh.k.200615.001 [pii]
AID - JEGH-11-1-76 [pii]
AID - 10.2991/jegh.k.200615.001 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Epidemiol Glob Health. 2021 Mar;11(1):76-82. doi: 10.2991/jegh.k.200615.001. 
      Epub 2020 Jun 19.