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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.

AIDS (Disease) --- Intravenous drug abuse --- Needle sharing --- Health behavior. --- Transmission. --- Social aspects. --- Risk factors. --- Health aspects. --- Intravenous drug abusers --- Health and hygiene. --- Medicine. --- Emerging infectious diseases. --- Public Health. --- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. --- Infectious Diseases. --- Public health. --- Health promotion. --- Infectious diseases. --- Health promotion programs --- Health promotion services --- Promotion of health --- Wellness programs --- Preventive health services --- Health education --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Behavior, Health --- Health habits --- Diseases --- Habit --- Health attitudes --- Human behavior --- Medicine and psychology --- Hypodermic needle sharing --- Hypodermic syringe sharing --- Sharing of hypodermic needles --- Syringe sharing --- Hypodermic needles --- IDA (Intravenous drug abuse) --- Injecting drug abuse --- Intravenous substance abuse --- IV drug abuse --- IVDA (Intravenous drug abuse) --- Substance abuse, Intravenous --- Drug abuse --- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunological deficiency syndrome --- HIV infections --- Immunological deficiency syndromes --- Virus-induced immunosuppression --- Causes and theories of causation