Drug Injection-Related Norms and High-Risk Behaviors of People Who Inject Drugs in Athens, Greece.

ABSTRACT: Drug use involves social interactions. Therefore, norms in the proximal environment of people who inject drugs (PWID) can favor behaviors that may result in HIV transmission. This work aimed at studying drug injection-related norms and their potential association with risky behaviors among PWID in Athens, Greece, in the context of economic recession and political activism that followed the fiscal crisis and soon after a recent HIV outbreak had leveled off. The Transmission Reduction Intervention Project (TRIP) was a social network-based approach (June 2013 to July 2015) that involved two groups of PWID seeds-with recent HIV infection and with long-term HIV infection and one control group of HIV-negative PWID. Network contacts of seeds were also enrolled. TRIP participants answered a questi

SUBMITTER: Hadjikou A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8020521 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature