AIDS and Community-Based Drug Intervention Programs: Evaluation and Outreach

by Fisher; Dennis

• ISBN13: 9781560245100
• ISBN10: 1560245107
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-10-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Delve into the uncharted territory of the "hidden" drug addict--users who are not in treatment, not incarcerated, and not officially accessible for research purposes through traditional means. AIDS and Community-Based Drug Intervention Programs describes short-term interventions used to reduce the odds that these drug users will get infected by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The book explains new methods that are being developed, such as targeted sampling, social network analysis, geomapping, and other amalgams of both quantitative and qualitative approaches, that need to be forged to overcome the challenges of the war against AIDS.

Table of Contents

Preface
Balancing Prevention Research and Service	p. 1
The Significance of Sampling and Understanding Hidden Populations	p. 13
Pile Sorts, A Cognitive Anthropological Model of Drug and AIDS Risks for Navajo Teenagers: Assessment of a New Evaluation Tool	p. 23
Contact Tracing for HIV Infection: Policy and Program Implications from a 50-State Survey	p. 41
A Comparison of HIV Related Risk Behaviors of Street Recruited and Treatment Program Recruited Injection Drug Users	p. 53
Social Network Structures: An Ethnographic Analysis of Intravenous Drug Use in Houston, Texas	p. 65
Copping Areas as Sampling and Recruitment Sites for Out-of-Treatment Crack and Injection Drug Users	p. 91
Drug Use and HIV Risk in Alaska Natives	p. 107
Behavior Change Strategies for Women at High Risk for HIV	p. 119
Characteristics of Female Sexual Partners of Injection Drug Users in Southern Arizona: Implications for Effective HIV Risk Reduction Interventions	p. 129
An Emerging Public Health Model for Reducing AIDS-Related Risk Behavior Among Injecting Drug Users and Their Sexual Partners	p. 143
Quantitative and Qualitative Methods to Assess Behavioral Change Among Injection Drug Users	p. 161
Using Goal-Oriented Counseling and Peer Support to Reduce HIV/AIDS Risk Among Drug Users Not in Treatment	p. 185
An Office-Based AIDS Prevention Program for High Risk Drug Users	p. 205
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