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Table 2 Beliefs and attitudes towards IDUs among survey respondents (n = 662)

From: Provider and clinic-level correlates of deferring antiretroviral therapy for people who inject drugs: a survey of North American HIV providers

Strongly disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly agree

"Even former IDUs have difficulty adhering to HAART"

  

66 (10.2)

253 (39.0)

120 (18.5)

186 (28.7)

24 (3.7)

"Health care providers have little influence over patients' IDU practices"

 

74 (11.4)

341 (52.5)

124 (19.1)

95 (14.6)

15 (2.3)

"I feel uncomfortable talking to my patients about their IDU practices"

 

258 (39.8)

293 (45.2)

23 (3.5)

53 (8.2)

22 (3.4)

"Providers are not professionally obligated to care for IDUs with HIV"

 

292 (45.0)

241 (37.1)

68 (10.5)

37 (5.7)

11 (1.7)