Social Networks, Drug InjectorsỚ" Lives, and HIV/AIDS

• Main Authors: Friedman, Samuel R. (Author), Curtis, Richard. (Author), Neaigus, Alan. (Author), Jose, Benny. (Author), Jarlais, Don C. Des. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Series: AIDS Prevention and Mental Health,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Public health.; Health promotion.; Infectious diseases.; Medicine & Public Health.; Public Health.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Infectious Diseases.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

Social Networks, Drug Injectors' Lives, and HIV/AIDS recognizes HIV as a socially structured disease - its transmission usually requires intimate contact between individuals - and shows how social networks shape high-risk behaviors and the spread of HIV. The authors recount the groundbreaking u...

Table of Contents:

• Learning from Lives
• The Drug Scene and Risk Behaviors in Bushwick
• The Very First Hit
• Network Concepts and Serosurvey Methods
• The Research Participants and Their Behaviors
• Personal Risk Networks and High-Risk Injecting Settings of Drug Injectors
• Syringe Sharing and the Social Characteristics of Drug-Injecting Dyads
• Sexual Networks, Condom Use, and the Prospects for HIV Spread to Non-Injection Drug Users
• Sociometric Networks among Bushwick Drug Injectors
• Networks and HIV and Other Infections
• Prevention and Research.