Social Networks, Drug Injectors’ Lives, and HIV/AIDSSocial 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 use of social network methods, ethnographic direct-observation techniques, and in-depth interviews in their study of a drug-using community in Brooklyn, New York. They provide a detailed documentary of the lives of community members. They describe drug-use, the affects of poverty and homelessness, the acquisition of money and drugs, and social relationships within the group. Social Networks, Drug Injectors' Lives, and HIV/AIDS shows that social networks and contexts are of crucial importance in understanding and fighting the AIDS epidemic. These findings should revitalize prevention efforts and reshape social policy. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Ethnographic Methods Used in the SFHR Study | 14 |
Conclusion | 50 |
The SettingLouie and Carmens Gallery | 69 |
AIDS Talk in Injection Settings | 84 |
Results | 91 |
Further Statistical Analysis | 102 |
Subjects and Data | 114 |
Sexual Networks Condom Use and the Prospects | 157 |
Consistent Condom Use in Relationships | 160 |
Sexual Relationships by Seropositive | 176 |
Three Measures of Network Location | 184 |
HIV Risk and Sociometric Risk Network Location | 192 |
Summary and Discussion | 200 |
Multiple Logistic Regression Predictors of HIV Serostatus | 206 |
Prevention and Research | 217 |
Risk Behaviors of the Participants in the 30 Days before the Interview | 122 |
Personal Risk Networks and HighRisk Injecting | 125 |
Variation by Years of Injection Gender RaceEthnicity and Drug | 134 |
Conclusions | 140 |
Results | 150 |
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Social Networks, Drug Injectors’ Lives, and HIV/AIDS Samuel R. Friedman,Richard Curtis,Alan Neaigus,Benny Jose,Don C. Des Jarlais No preview available - 2010 |
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