HIV Risk Behavior and Beliefs of HIV-Seropositive Drug Users

Chapter 8 HIV RISK BEHAVIOR AND BELIEFS OF HIV-SEROPOSITIVE DRUG USERS

In relation to injecting drug use, many European and U.S. efforts to prevent new HIV infections focus on sexual and injecting risk behavior of persons who are not infected (both injectors and sexual partners of injectors). Behavioral changes among these HIVnegatives are given that knowledge and means are present dependent on a desire for self-protection against HIV infection. However, in order ...

Sexual risk behavior in HIV-infected injection drug users.

HIV risk behavior among injecting drug users in Amsterdam

Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization in HIV-seropositive and HIV-seronegative drug users.

Nasal colonization plays an important role in the pathogenesis of Staphylococcus aureus infections. To identify characteristics associated with colonization, we studied a cross-section of a well-described cohort of HIV-seropositive and -seronegative active and former drug users considered at risk for staphylococcal infections. Sixty percent of the 217 subjects were Hispanic, 36% were women, 25%...

Will HIV Vaccination Reshape HIV Risk Behavior Networks? A Social Network Analysis of Drug Users' Anticipated Risk Compensation

BACKGROUND An HIV vaccine could substantially impact the epidemic. However, risk compensation (RC), or post-vaccination increase in risk behavior, could present a major challenge. The methodology used in previous studies of risk compensation has been almost exclusively individual-level in focus, and has not explored how increased risk behavior could affect the connectivity of risk networks. Thi...