TY - BOOK ID - 19449474 TI - Social networks, drug injectors' lives, and HIV/AIDS PY - 1999 SN - 0306460793 9786610207145 1280207140 0306471612 PB - New York : Kluwer Academic, DB - UniCat KW - AIDS (Disease) KW - Intravenous drug abuse KW - Needle sharing KW - Health behavior. KW - Transmission. KW - Social aspects. KW - Risk factors. KW - Health aspects. KW - Intravenous drug abusers KW - Health and hygiene. KW - Medicine. KW - Emerging infectious diseases. KW - Public Health. KW - Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. KW - Infectious Diseases. KW - Public health. KW - Health promotion. KW - Infectious diseases. KW - Health promotion programs KW - Health promotion services KW - Promotion of health KW - Wellness programs KW - Preventive health services KW - Health education KW - Community health KW - Health services KW - Hygiene, Public KW - Hygiene, Social KW - Public health services KW - Public hygiene KW - Social hygiene KW - Health KW - Human services KW - Biosecurity KW - Health literacy KW - Medicine, Preventive KW - National health services KW - Sanitation KW - Behavior, Health KW - Health habits KW - Diseases KW - Habit KW - Health attitudes KW - Human behavior KW - Medicine and psychology KW - Hypodermic needle sharing KW - Hypodermic syringe sharing KW - Sharing of hypodermic needles KW - Syringe sharing KW - Hypodermic needles KW - IDA (Intravenous drug abuse) KW - Injecting drug abuse KW - Intravenous substance abuse KW - IV drug abuse KW - IVDA (Intravenous drug abuse) KW - Substance abuse, Intravenous KW - Drug abuse KW - Acquired immune deficiency syndrome KW - Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome KW - Acquired immunological deficiency syndrome KW - HIV infections KW - Immunological deficiency syndromes KW - Virus-induced immunosuppression KW - Causes and theories of causation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:19449474 AB - 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 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. ER -