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Drug-Using Women and HIV

Risk-Reduction and Prevention Issues

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Women at Risk

Part of the book series: AIDS Prevention and Mental Health ((APMH))

Abstract

While drug-using women have been the group of women most at risk for HIV infection since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, these women are also those for whom risk reduction to prevent acquisition of infection is most problematic. A number of recent studies strongly suggest that for drug-using women, there are significant educational, cultural, economic, psychological, physical, and social barriers that affect their ability to change risk behaviors and to participate in prevention programs (V. Brown & Weissman, 1993; G. Weissman & the NARC., 1991a, b). This chapter will discuss those barriers, some of the strategies that have been used to overcome them, and areas in which more work is needed. Our chapter in the next volume in this series will discuss issues that affect access to care for drug-using women with HIV disease.

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Weissman, G., Brown, V. (1995). Drug-Using Women and HIV. In: O’Leary, A., Jemmott, L.S. (eds) Women at Risk. AIDS Prevention and Mental Health. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1057-8_8

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