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Women and AIDS: a brief updateC E Sterk
Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Int J STD AIDS 9:16-8. 1998..To reduce heterosexual transmission of HIV, it will be necessary to provide women with female-controlled prevention methods and to develop programs that consider the sociocultural context in which heterosexual transmission occurs...- Getting into ecstasy: comparing moderate and heavy young adult usersClaire E Sterk
Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Psychoactive Drugs 39:103-13. 2007..A better understanding of initial and current Ecstasy use patterns, including polydrug use, is essential for effective prevention and intervention efforts... 
Individual action and community context: the Health Intervention ProjectClaire E Sterk
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Am J Prev Med 32:S177-81. 2007..Social capital provides social relationships and potential resources that may hinder or trigger risk or protective health behaviors, especially for individuals with limited economic means...- The impact of emotional distress on HIV risk reduction among womenClaire E Sterk
Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Subst Use Misuse 41:157-73. 2006..Findings suggest the need for effective interventions and mental health resources among subgroups of high-risk women who may be most resistant to behavioral change... - African American female drug users and HIV risk reduction challenges with criminal involvementClaire E Sterk
Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 16:89-107. 2005..The unique needs of women such as those in this sample must be taken into account when designing intervention and prevention programs, both within and outside the criminal justice system... - Perceived condom use self-efficacy among at-risk womenClaire E Sterk
Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
AIDS Behav 7:175-82. 2003.... - HIV risk reduction among African-American women who inject drugs: a randomized controlled trialClaire E Sterk
Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
AIDS Behav 7:73-86. 2003..Results indicate the value of including additional components in interventions designed to reduce the risk of infection with HIV among women who inject drugs... - Who's getting the message? Intervention response rates among women who inject drugs and/or smoke crack cocaineClaire E Sterk
Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Prev Med 37:119-28. 2003..Injection drug users (IDUs) who also smoke crack may be at greatest risk for infection with HIV as well as other blood-borne and sexually transmitted infections and in most need of positive behavioral changes... - The Health Intervention Project: HIV risk reduction among African American women drug usersClaire E Sterk
Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, 1518 Clifton Road, NE, Atlanta GA 30322, USA
Public Health Rep 117:S88-95. 2002..This article describes the Health Intervention Project, an intervention for African American women in Atlanta, Georgia, who are crack cocaine users... - Health care utilization among drug-using and non-drug-using womenClaire E Sterk
Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
J Urban Health 79:586-99. 2002.... - Epidemiological indicators and ethnographic realities of female cocaine useC E Sterk
Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Subst Use Misuse 34:2057-72. 1999..The findings indicate that epidemiological indicators may misrepresent the gender distribution among drug users... - Effectiveness of a risk reduction intervention among African American women who use crack cocaineClaire E Sterk
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
AIDS Educ Prev 15:15-32. 2003..Findings suggest that combined components of our culturally appropriate, gender-tailored intervention may be most effective at enhancing preventive behavior among similar populations... 
Depression and HIV risk behavior practices among at risk womenHugh Klein
Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Women Health 48:167-88. 2008....- Young adult Ecstasy users and multiple sexual partners: understanding the factors underlying this HIV risk practiceClaire E Sterk
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
J Psychoactive Drugs 40:237-44. 2008..The HIV prevention- and intervention-related implications of these findings are discussed... - Childhood neglect and adulthood involvement in HIV-related risk behaviorsHugh Klein
Department of Sociology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Child Abuse Negl 31:39-53. 2007..This study examines the role that childhood neglect has on adult women's involvement in HIV-related risky behaviors... - Factors associated with positive HIV serostatus among women who use drugs: continued evidence for expanding factors of influenceKatherine P Theall
Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Public Health Rep 118:415-24. 2003..The importance of oral sex and presence of oral sores and their potential role in transmission was suggested... - Predictors of condom-related attitudes among at-risk womenClaire E Sterk
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 13:676-88. 2004..To increase condom use, programs should consider targeting specific types of women as well as their specific attitudes toward condom use... - Self-esteem and "at risk" women:determinants and relevance to sexual and HIV-related risk behaviorsClaire E Sterk
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road, NE, 1st Floor, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Women Health 40:75-92. 2004..The findings indicate that self-esteem is highly relevant to "at risk" women's HIV risk behavior practices, and this has important implications for HIV intervention programs... - Partner communication and HIV risk behaviors among "at risk" womenHugh Klein
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA
Soz Praventivmed 49:363-74. 2004..main research questions: First, what is the relationship between partner communication and involvement in HIV risk behaviors? Second, which factors predict women's level of partner communication about key issues salient in their lives?.. - Safe living: the impact of unstable housing conditions on HIV risk reduction among female drug usersKirk W Elifson
Department of Sociology, Georgia State University, University Plaza, Atlanta, GA 30302, USA
AIDS Behav 11:45-55. 2007..The findings suggest that unstable housing conditions form a structural barrier to HIV risk reduction irrespective of the message. Future interventions should consider such conditions and the larger social context of the women's lives... - Past and new victimization among African American female drug users who participated in an HIV risk-reduction interventionKatherine P Theall
Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, 1518 Clifton Road N.E, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Sex Res 41:400-7. 2004..Results indicate the need to incorporate strategies to reduce victimization in HIV/AIDS and other health-related prevention and intervention programs... - Ecstasy and gateway drugs: initiating the use of ecstasy and other drugsLesley W Reid
Department of Sociology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302 5020, USA
Ann Epidemiol 17:74-80. 2007.... - Predictors of sexual risk-taking among new drug usersKirk W Elifson
Georgia State University, Department of Sociology, University Plaza, General Classroom Building, Room 1041, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
J Sex Res 43:318-27. 2006..We discuss the need to incorporate new drug users in HIV/AIDS and other health-related prevention and intervention programs... - Late-onset crack users: an emergent HIV risk groupWendell A Johnson
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 33:S229-32. 2003..The findings suggest a typology of late-onset users with differing forms of HIV risk and prevention needs. The authors end the article with recommendations for effective HIV risk reduction programs for late-onset crack users... - Sex, touch, and HIV risk among ecstasy usersKatherine P Theall
Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA, USA
AIDS Behav 10:169-78. 2006..Results suggest that the setting of ecstasy use also may influence involvement in risk behaviors. Future longitudinal studies are needed on the relationship between ecstasy use, touch, sexual arousal and ability, and risk behavior... - "At risk" women who think that they have no chance of getting HIV: self-assessed perceived risksHugh Klein
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, and the Kensington Research Institute, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA
Women Health 38:47-63. 2003.... - The cultural and community-level acceptance of antiretroviral therapy (ART) among traditional healers in Eastern Cape, South AfricaJustin M Shuster
The Hope Clinic of the Emory Vaccine Center, Decatur, GA 30030, USA
J Community Health 34:16-22. 2009..Through an incorporation of these factors into future HIV/AIDS treatment programs, South Africa and other sub-Saharan countries may dramatically strengthen their ability to provide ART in resource-poor settings... - Screening for vestibular disorders: a study of clinicians' compliance with recommended practicesSharon H Polensek
Rehabilitation Research and Development, Atlanta VA Medical Center, Atlanta, GA, USA
Med Sci Monit 14:CR238-242. 2008..The aim of this study was to examine clinical assessments used by providers in evaluating dizzy patients in outpatient clinics and the emergency department... - Understanding recreational ecstasy use in the United States: a qualitative inquiryMasuma Bahora
Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, 1518 Clifton Road N E, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Int J Drug Policy 20:62-9. 2009..In this paper, we explore the perceptions of ecstasy users about its recreational use as well as regarding the normalisation of use... - The limits of social capital: Durkheim, suicide, and social cohesionHoward I Kushner
Rollins School of Public Health, 5th Floor, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Rd, NE, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Public Health 95:1139-43. 2005..A reexamination of Durkheim's data on female suicide and suicide in the military suggests that we should be skeptical about recent studies connecting improved population health to social capital... - Reconceptualizing early and late onset: a life course analysis of older heroin usersMiriam Williams Boeri
Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Gerontologist 48:637-45. 2008..In this article, we apply a life course perspective to gain a further understanding of older adult drug use, specifically contrasting early- and late-onset heroin users... - Predictors of suicidal ideation among "at risk" cocaine-using African American womenHugh Klein
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 36:336-48. 2006.... - Hug drug or thug drug? Ecstasy use and aggressive behaviorLesley Williams Reid
Department of Sociology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
Violence Vict 22:104-19. 2007..Those who exhibit low self-control are more affected by ecstasy use than those who do not in terms of aggression. Our findings add an important dimension to our current knowledge about the relationship between aggression and ecstasy... - Pharmacy student knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about selling syringes to injection drug usersWendy J Blumenthal
Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Am Pharm Assoc (Wash) 42:S34-9. 2002.... - Looking beyond stereotypes: exploring variations among crack smokersDanielle German
Health Intervention Project, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
J Psychoactive Drugs 34:383-92. 2002..Increased insight into the heterogeneity among crack users is relevant when designing comprehensive prevention and intervention programs... - Young adult Ecstasy users who forego necessary medical care: a fairly common occurrence with important health implicationsKirk W Elifson
Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
J Psychoactive Drugs 42:63-71. 2010.... - Craving and control: methamphetamine users' narrativesAlexandra M Bruehl
Department of Anthropology, Emory University, 1557 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Psychoactive Drugs . 2006..This study complements the largely quantitative work on craving and highlights the importance of improving drug abuse treatment and harm reduction programs... - Drug problems and "at risk" women's involvement in HIV risk behaviorsKirk W Elifson
Department of Sociology, Georgia State University
Soz Praventivmed 49:198-207. 2004..on two research questions: is there a relationship between women's number of drug problems and the extent to which they engage in HIV risk behaviors? What factors influence the extent to which women experience drug-related problems?.. - Criminality among female drug users following an HIV risk-reduction interventionKatherine P Theall
Emory University and Louisiana State University, USA
J Interpers Violence 22:85-107. 2007..The findings suggest the importance of considering individual characteristics that may influence the women's criminal behavior as well as the impact of their routine activities... - Individual and structural influences shaping pharmacists' decisions to sell syringes to injection drug users in Atlanta, GeorgiaJennifer Taussig
Georgia Department of Corrections, Atlanta 30334, USA
J Am Pharm Assoc (Wash) 42:S40-5. 2002..To better understand the individual (e.g., attitudes and beliefs) and structural (e.g., laws and regulations) factors that influence and shape pharmacists' decisions about selling syringes to injection drug users (IDUs)...