'It's risky to walk in the city with syringes': understanding access to HIV/AIDS services for injecting drug users in the former Soviet Union countries of Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan

Table 2 Study sample sizes

	Ukraine	Kyrgyzstan	Total
Clients	118	84	202
Female	41	40	81
Male	77	44	121
Using NGO services	79	56	135
Using government services	42	28	70
Service (frontline) providers	138	58	196
NGO service providers*	88	23	111
Government service providers**	50	35	85
Stakeholders***	135	86	221
Total service providers sampled	71	25	96
NGO service providers*	49	15	64
Government service providers**	22	10	32

*Needle/syringe exchange, awareness-raising and social support programmes some of which were delivered as outreach services, some delivered from a fixed site
**HIV testing and treatment and OST
***Government and NGO HIV/AIDS service managers, government decision makers, international development partners and Global Fund country programme implementers.

ISSN: 1744-8603