AEGiS-APPJ: The Effective Life of AIDS Prevention Information Among Intravenous Drug Uses

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The Effective Life of AIDS Prevention Information Among Intravenous Drug Uses

AIDS & Public Policy Journal 5, no. 3 (Summer 1990): 117-18
Jay Johnson and Mark Williams

As part of the nationwide effort to study and control the spread of HIV among IVDUs and their sexual partners, in October 1987 the NIDA established a three-year National AIDS Demonstration and Research (NADR) project in Houston. The Houston NADR employed indigenous outreach worker teams to locate and follow-up more than 3,000 IVDUs and their sexual partners. These outreach teams delivered HIV prevention information and services through street-based intervention. The services provided were free HIV blood testing and counseling, HIV prevention literature, condoms, and bleach in small bottles labeled with instructions on how to disinfect syringes. The study sample included blacks, Hispanics, and whites representing the project's three target populations. Participants were questioned about their knowledge of AIDS and how it is discussed among their friends and drug-using associates. The conceptual categories used were generated through analysis that involved the continual reinspection of data as it was collected in order to generate typologies of patterned social behavior.
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