       Document 0975
 DOCN  M9620975
 TI    Friends and lovers: needle sharing in young people in Western Australia.
 DT    9602
 AU    Loxley W; Ovenden C; National Centre for Research into the Prevention of
       Drug Abuse,; Curtin University of Technology, South Perth, Australia.
 SO    AIDS Care. 1995;7(3):337-51. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/96068001
 AB    The Youth AIDS and Drugs (YAD) Study is a study of young people who
       inject drugs, and their risk of the transmission of HIV through needle
       sharing and/or unsafe sex. One hundred and five people, aged less than
       21, 75% of whom were current or recent injectors, undertook in-depth
       interviews which were tape recorded, transcribed and analysed
       qualitatively. This paper focuses on the ways in which the young people
       in the group attempted to manage the risk of needle sharing. Needle
       sharing in the study group was not common behaviour. Almost all
       injectors employed one of four major Risk Management Strategies some of
       which included the possibility of sharing unbleached needles with a
       friend or a lover. These strategies were strongly related to beliefs
       that such friends and lovers were well enough known by the individual
       for there to be very little risk. The implications of these findings for
       health promotion with young people who inject drugs in Perth, a city of
       low IDU seroprevalence, are outlined.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/PREVENTION & CONTROL/
       PSYCHOLOGY/*TRANSMISSION  Adolescence  Adult  Denial (Psychology)
       Female  Health Education  Human  *Interpersonal Relations  *Knowledge,
       Attitudes, Practice  *Love  Male  Needle Sharing/PSYCHOLOGY/*STATISTICS
       & NUMER DATA  *Sex Behavior  Support, Non-U.S. Gov't  Western
       Australia/EPIDEMIOLOGY  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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