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- Many long-term people who inject drugs (PWID) in New York manage to avoid HIV and Hepatitis C infection despite high prevalence rates.
- The article uses life history interviews with 35 PWID to explore how balancing various roles in their lives contributes to their non-infection.
- Understanding the non-risk aspects of these individuals' lives is crucial for analyzing their risk behaviors and the outcomes related to their health status.
Article Abstract
Though prevalence of HIV and especially Hepatitis C is high among people who inject drugs (PWID) in New York, about a third of those who have injected for 8-15 years have avoided infection by either virus despite their long-term drug use. Based on life history interviews with 35 long-term PWID in New York, this article seeks to show how successful integration and performance of various drug using and non-drug using roles may have contributed to some of these PWID's staying uninfected with either virus. We argue that analysis of non-risk related aspects of the lives of the risk-takers (PWID) is very important in understanding their risk-taking behaviour and its outcomes (infection statuses). Drawing on work-related, social and institutional resources, our double-negative informants underwent both periods of stability and turmoil without getting infected.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4478155 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12226 | DOI Listing |
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