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Structural Interventions: Concepts, Challenges and Opportunities for Research

Kim M. Blankenship, Samuel R Friedman, Steven N. Dworkin, Joanne E Mantell
Journal of Urban Health
2005

Structural interventions refer to public health interventions that promote health by altering the structural context within which health is produced and reproduced. They draw on concepts from… (More)

The social structural production of HIV risk among injecting drug users.

Tim Rhodes, Merrill Singer, Philippe Bourgois, Samuel R Friedman, Steffanie Anne Strathdee
Social science & medicine
2005

There is increasing appreciation of the need to understand how social and structural factors shape HIV risk. Drawing on a review of recently published literature, we seek to describe the social… (More)

Reduced risk of hepatitis B and hepatitis C among injection drug users in the Tacoma syringe exchange program.

Holly Hagan, Don Des Jarlais, Samuel R Friedman, David Purchase, Miriam J. Alter
American journal of public health
1995

OBJECTIVES This case-control study examined the association between syringe exchange use and hepatitis B and C in injection drug users. METHODS Case patients included 28 injection drug users with… (More)

Estimates of injecting drug users at the national and local level in developing and transitional countries, and gender and age distribution.

Carmen Aceijas, Samuel R Friedman, Hannah Lf Cooper, Lucas Wiessing, Gerry V. Stimson, Matthew Hickman
Sexually transmitted infections
2006

OBJECTIVE To present and update available national and subnational estimates of injecting drug users (IDUs) in developing/transitional countries, and provide indicative estimates of gender and age… (More)

Transitions to injecting drug use among noninjecting heroin users: social network influence and individual susceptibility.

Alan Neaigus, Valéria Anna Gyarmathy, Maureen Jane Miller, Veronica M Frajzyngier, Samuel R Friedman, Don C Des Jarlais
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes
2006

OBJECTIVES To determine the incidence/predictors of transitions to injecting among noninjecting heroin users (NIUs). METHODS Street-recruited NIUs in New York City, March/1996-March/2003, were… (More)

Theorizing "Big Events" as a potential risk environment for drug use, drug-related harm and HIV epidemic outbreaks.

Samuel R Friedman, Diana Rossi, Naomi Braine
The International journal on drug policy
2009

Political-economic transitions in the Soviet Union, Indonesia, and China, but not the Philippines, were followed by HIV epidemics among drug users. Wars also may sometimes increase HIV risk. Based on… (More)

Convergence of HIV seroprevalence among injecting and non-injecting drug users in New York City.

Don C Des Jarlais, Kamyar Arasteh, +8 authors Samuel R Friedman
AIDS
2007

OBJECTIVE To compare HIV prevalence among injecting and non-injecting heroin and cocaine users in New York City. As HIV is efficiently transmitted through the sharing of drug-injecting equipment, HIV… (More)

Statewide estimation of racial/ethnic populations of men who have sex with men in the U.S.

Spencer Lieb, Stephen J. Fallon, +4 authors Robert M. Malow
Public health reports
2011

OBJECTIVES Men who have sex with men (MSM) bear the greatest burden of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in every state in the U.S., but their populations… (More)

HIV incidence among injection drug users in New York City, 1990 to 2002: use of serologic test algorithm to assess expansion of HIV prevention services.

Don C Des Jarlais, Theresa E. Perlis, +6 authors Samuel R Friedman
American journal of public health
2005

OBJECTIVES We sought to estimate HIV incidence among injection drug users (IDUs) in New York City from 1990 to 2002 to assess the impact of an expansion of syringe exchange services. Syringe exchange… (More)

HIV infection among intravenous drug users: epidemiology and risk reduction.

Research on the epidemiology of HIV infection among IV drug users is still at a relatively early stage. Multilocation studies that would permit better geographic comparisons are greatly needed.… (More)

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