Table 1 Characteristics of 586 PWID participants in the Tijuana-San Diego metropolitan area in 2020–2021
Variables | Tijuana | San Diego | All | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | Value | n | Value | n | Value | |
Agea | 202 | 44.5 (9.7) | 384 | 42.6 (11.0) | 586 | 43.2 (10.6) |
Gender (%) | ||||||
Men | 146 | 72.3 | 291 | 75.8 | 437 | 74.6 |
Women | 55 | 27.2 | 93 | 24.2 | 148 | 25.3 |
Trans men | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.2 |
Housing status (%) | ||||||
Main housing in the last 6 months | ||||||
Permanent housing | 44 | 21.8 | 168 | 43.8 | 212 | 36.2 |
Sheltered homelessness | 66 | 32.7 | 59 | 15.4 | 125 | 21.3 |
Unsheltered homelessness | 92 | 45.5 | 157 | 40.9 | 249 | 42.5 |
Unsheltered homelessness at least once in the last 6 months | 102 | 50.5 | 201 | 52.3 | 304 | 51.9 |
Sex work in the las 6 months (%) | ||||||
No | 162 | 80.2 | 370 | 96.4 | 532 | 90.8 |
Yes | 40 | 19.8 | 13 | 3.4 | 53 | 9 |
Missing | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.2 |
Total | 202 | 100 | 384 | 100 | 586 | 100 |