Injection drug users' strategies to manage perceptions of personal risk: How do IDUs see HIV as having affected them?

AIDS Education and Prevention

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 245-257

  Smith, Katherine Clegg ^a,b   Lillie, Tiffany Le Lefevre ^a   Latkin, Carl ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Hampton House   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COMMUNITY; DRUG USE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INJECTION; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANECDOTES; BALTIMORE; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; RISK-TAKING; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 34250357174     PISSN: 08999546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/aeap.2007.19.3.245     Document Type: Article

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