Replication data for: Central Asia (2007): HIV/AIDS TRaC Study Evaluating Sexual Behavior and Injecting Drug Use among Opiate Drug-Using Sex Workers in Tashkent. First Round.

PSI/Central Asia is implementing a 5-year USAID-funded Drug Demand Reduction Program (DDRP). The Adara1 (or DDR-SW) intervention2 has been operating as part of DDRP in Central Asia since March 2006 targeting sex workers (SWs), opiate drug-using sex workers (referred hereafter as DU-SWs), a category that includes drug users who sell sex. At the time of this study, the PSI outreach team had only started intensifying its activities with DU-SWs. PSI uses behavior change communications in the Adara intervention to: (1) prevent initiation of injecting drug use among SWs, (2) decrease SW drug and HIV risk behaviors, and (3) increase SW utilization of DDR and other essential health and social services to help them reduce or stop using drugs.