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Tables of Contents for Social Networks, Drug Injectors' Lives, And HIV/Aids
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Introduction
HIV/AIDS and Drug Injectors in the World, the United States, New York City, and Bushwick
1
6
Individualistic Perspectives on Epidemiology of HIV among Injection Drug Users
7
2
Individualistic Views of Risk Behaviors
9
1
Social and Risk Networks Influence HIV Risk Behaviors and Infection: Other Research
10
2
Summary
12
2
``Learning from Lives''
Ethnographic Methods Used in the SFHR Study
14
1
Six Lives
15
35
Pat
15
6
Honey
21
5
Celia
26
7
Bruce
33
5
Jerry
38
5
Louie
43
7
Conclusion
50
3
The Drug Scene and Risk Behaviors in Bushwick
Overview
53
1
The Drug Scene in Bushwick: The Making of a Street-Level Drug Supermarket
53
4
Buying and Using Drugs in Bushwick during the Research Period (1990-1993)
57
3
Shooting Galleries over the Research Period
60
9
The Tire Shop
62
4
The House on Crack Row
66
3
The Setting---Louie and Carmen's Gallery
69
15
The Setup---Bleach, Water, Cookers, and Works
70
1
``Getting Straight'' in the Gallery
71
7
Splitting the Difference
78
2
Banging in the Street: Patricia Takes a Chance
80
2
Hit Doctors and Hidden Spots
82
2
AIDS Talk in Injection Settings
84
3
The Very First Hit
Katherine A. Atwood
Introduction
87
1
Background and Significance
88
1
Study Design
89
1
Analytic Methods
89
2
Results
91
11
Pre-HIV (Calendar Period 1: 1955-1974)
93
5
HIV Spread (Calendar Period 2: 1975-1983)
98
2
HIV Stabilization and Initial Decline (Calendar Period 3: 1984-1992)
100
2
Further Statistical Analysis
102
2
Limitations
104
1
Discussion and Conclusions
105
2
Network Concepts and Serosurvey Methods
Network Concepts and Data
107
7
Units of Analysis
113
1
Subjects and Data
114
2
Questionnaire
114
1
Network Information
114
2
Defining Linkages
116
6
Data Validity and Reliability
116
1
Limitations of These Data
117
5
The Research Participants and Their Behaviors
Risk Behaviors of the Participants in the 30 Days before the Interview
122
1
Individual Behavior, Behavior in Networks, and Behavior in Relationships
123
2
Personal Risk Networks and High-Risk Injecting Settings of Drug Injectors
Introduction
125
1
Methods
126
1
Results
126
8
High-Risk Network Members
131
1
Duration and Intensity of Relationships
132
1
Heterogeneity
133
1
High-Risk Injection Settings
133
1
Variation by Years of Injection, Gender, Race-Ethnicity, and Drug Scene Roles
134
6
Variation by Years of Drug Injection
134
1
Variation by Gender
134
1
Variation by Race-Ethnicity
135
1
Variation by Roles in Drug Scene
135
5
Conclusions
140
3
Syringe Sharing and the Social Characteristics of Drug-Injecting Dyads
Introduction
143
1
Methods
144
5
Peer Culture
146
2
Subject's Economic Resources
148
1
Subject's Individual Biography
148
1
Subject's Contact with Risk Reduction Organizations
148
1
Subject's Drug Behaviors
149
1
Subject's Sexual Behaviors
149
1
Statistical Analysis
149
1
Results
150
4
Discussion
154
3
Sexual Networks, Condom Use, and the Prospects for HIV Spread to Non-Injection Drug Users
Introduction
157
1
Descriptive Data on Sexual Relationships of Drug Injectors in This Study
157
2
Commercial Sex Work by HIV-Infected and -Uninfected Women Drug Injectors
159
1
Consistent Condom Use in Relationships
160
4
Theoretical Background
160
2
Relationship Characteristics
162
1
Personal Characteristics
162
2
Social Environment
164
1
The Study
164
12
Data
164
1
Results
165
4
Multiple Regression Analyses
169
1
Subset Analyses
170
3
Implications of the Analysis of Consistent Condom Use in Relationships
173
3
Non-IDU Youths at Risk: Sexual Relationships by Seropositive and Seronegative IDUs with Non-IDU Youths
176
1
Preliminary Views from the Other Side: What Youths Living in Bushwick Households Report about Sex with IDUs
177
7
Results
178
1
Conclusions
179
5
Sociometric Networks among Bushwick Drug Injectors
Three Measures of Network Location
184
3
Defining Sociometric Social Network Location
184
1
Defining the Ethnographic Core Network
185
2
Comparing the Three Measures of Network Location
187
2
Who Is in What Sociometric Risk Network Location
189
3
HIV Risk and Sociometric Risk Network Location
192
5
Sociometric Risk Network Location and Prevention Resources
197
3
Summary and Discussion
200
1
Networks and HIV and Other Infections
Which Drug Injectors Are Infected?
201
5
Multiple Logistic Regression Predictors of HIV Serostatus
206
2
Multiple Regression Analyses of Relationships of Sociometric Risk Network Location
208
1
A Note on the Other Predictors of HIV
209
1
Drug-Injecting Careers, Networks, and HIV
210
9
Prevention and Research
How Networks Change over Time and the Effects of This
219
1
How Sociometric Network Research on Drug Injectors and Other Community-Based Groups of People Can Be Done Quickly and Cheaply
220
3
The Larger-Scale Determinants of Network Structures
223
1
Past Research
224
1
Broader Issues
225
8
Race-Ethnicity
226
2
Class
228
1
Sex
228
1
Drug Policy
229
4
Caught in the Grips of a Decaying Society
233
3
Final Thoughts
236
3
Appendix: Methods for Assigning Linkages in Studies of Drug Injector Networks
Gilbert Ildefonso
Introduction
239
1
Overview of the Methodology
240
2
Network Membership
242
1
Multiple Egocentric Network Membership
242
2
Foxbase Databases
244
1
Validating Network Member Links
245
6
Storefront Network Linkages
246
1
Field Network Linkages
246
3
Ethnographic Network Linkages
249
1
Data Set Network Linkages
250
1
Egocentric Network Linkage Case Study
251
1
Linkage Statistics
252
1
Conclusions
252
3
References
255
14
Index
269