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Values and identity: the meaning of work for injection drug users involved in volunteer HIV prevention outreachJULIA B DICKSON-GOMEZ
The Institute for Community Research, Hartford, Connecticut 06106 5128, USA
Subst Use Misuse 39:1259-86. 2004..Many participants saw their outreach as "work," which gave them a sense of meaning and purpose and motivated them to make other positive changes in their lives...
Times and places: Process evaluation of a peer-led HIV prevention interventionJulia Dickson-Gomez
Institute for Community Research, Hartford, CT 06106, USA
Subst Use Misuse 41:669-90. 2006..Process evaluations of successful HIV prevention interventions are necessary to understand how and why such interventions work for further intervention refinement...
Unofficial policy: access to housing, housing information and social services among homeless drug users in Hartford, ConnecticutJulia Dickson-Gomez
Institute for Community Research, 2 Hartford Square West, Suite 100, Hartford, CT 06106, USA
Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy 2:8. 2007..However, the effects of housing policies on drug users' access to housing have been understudied to date. This paper will look at the "unofficial" housing policies that affect drug users' access to housing...
The relationship between housing status and HIV risk among active drug users: a qualitative analysisJulia Dickson-Gomez
Institute for Community Research, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Subst Use Misuse 44:139-62. 2009..Policy implications of the findings, limitations to the data, and future research are discussed...
Outcomes of a peer HIV prevention program with injection drug and crack users: the Risk Avoidance PartnershipMargaret R Weeks
Institute for Community Research, Hartford, Connecticut 06106, USA
Subst Use Misuse 44:253-81. 2009....
A social network approach to demonstrate the diffusion and change process of intervention from peer health advocates to the drug using communityJianghong Li
Institute for Community Research, Hartford, Connecticut 06106, USA
Subst Use Misuse 47:474-90. 2012..RAP innovation has diffused into the Hartford drug-using community...
Hoppers and oldheads: qualitative evaluation of a volunteer AIDS outreach interventionJulia Dickson-Gomez
The Institute for Community Research, 2 Hartford Square West, Suite 100, Hartford, CT 06106 5128, USA
AIDS Behav 7:303-15. 2003....
Multilevel social influences on female condom use and adoption among women in the urban United StatesMargaret R Weeks
Institute for Community Research, Hartford, Connecticut 06106, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 24:297-309. 2010..FC can make a valuable contribution to reducing heterosexually transmitted HIV among women in many circumstances. The greatest barrier to increased FC use is the lack of a supportive community environment for its promotion and use...
Altruism and peer-led HIV prevention targeting heroin and cocaine usersMark R Convey
Institute for Community Research, 2 Hartford Square West, Hartford, CT 06106, USA
Qual Health Res 20:1546-57. 2010..We contend that altruism found in volunteers is an important factor in maintaining long-term participation in HIV intervention programs and initiatives using peer educators...
Changing drug users' risk environments: peer health advocates as multi-level community change agentsMargaret R Weeks
Institute for Community Research, 2 Hartford Square West, Suite 100, Hartford, CT 06106, USA
Am J Community Psychol 43:330-44. 2009..Implications of the RAP program for designing effective prevention programs and for analyzing long-term change to reduce HIV transmission among high-risk groups are discussed from this ecological and multi-level intervention perspective...
Childhood sexual abuse and HIV risk among crack-using commercial sex workers in San Salvador, El Salvador: a qualitative analysisJulia Dickson-Gomez
Institute for Community Research, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Med Anthropol Q 20:545-74. 2006..Self-report data gathered in this study indicate that HIV prevalence may be considerably higher in this high-risk population than Salvadoran national rates...
The sound of barking dogs: violence and terror among Salvadoran families in the postwarJulia Dickson-Gomez
Institute for Community Research, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Med Anthropol Q 16:415-38. 2002....
