“When you’re using gear you put HIV to the back of your mind and forget about it”: Constructs of risk

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 357-366

  Hughes, Rhidian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavior; Drug injectors; Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); Qualitative research; Risk

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; DATA ANALYSIS; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; PRISON; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 6044278072     PISSN: 02791072     EISSN: 21599777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02791072.2004.10400035     Document Type: Article

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