Dual HIV risk and vulnerabilities among women who use or inject drugs: no single prevention strategy is the answer

N El-Bassel, WM Wechsberg… - Current Opinion in HIV …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
HIV prevention strategies and services need to address the unique and multilevel drivers
that increase the vulnerabilities to HIV, HCV, and STIs among women who use drugs …

Reducing HIV risk behaviors among Black women living with and without HIV/AIDS in the US: A systematic review

AI Sophus, JW Mitchell - AIDS and Behavior, 2021 - Springer
This systematic review provides an examination of the status of HIV/AIDS prevention
interventions for Black, heterosexual women in the US from 2012 to 2019. Using PRISMA …

Drug use and incarceration among rural Appalachian women: Findings from a jail sample

M Staton, G Ciciurkaite, C Oser, M Tillson… - Substance Use & …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Background/Objective: The purpose of this paper is to examine drug use and
incarceration history among rural Appalachian women. Methods: This study involved …

Social support quality and availability affects risk behaviors in offenders

SA Spohr, S Suzuki, B Marshall, FS Taxman… - Health & justice, 2016 - Springer
Background People involved in the justice system are at 2.5 times the risk of HIV infection
compared to the general population, which is further complicated by substance abuse. The …

HIV among injection drug users and their intimate partners in Almaty, Kazakhstan

N El-Bassel, L Gilbert, A Terlikbayeva, E Wu… - AIDS and Behavior, 2013 - Springer
This paper examines prevalence rates of HIV, HCV, and syphilis among a sample of
injecting drug users (IDUs) and their heterosexual intimate partners (N= 728) from Almaty …

Effectiveness of a couple-based HIV and sexually transmitted infection prevention intervention for men in community supervision programs and their female sexual …

N El-Bassel, L Gilbert, D Goddard-Eckrich… - JAMA Network …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance In the United States, the prevalence rates of HIV and sexually transmitted
infections (STIs) are higher among individuals in community supervision programs (CSPs) …

Psychosocial vulnerability and HIV-related sexual risk among men who have sex with men and women in the United States

TP Dyer, R Regan, LR Pacek, A Acheampong… - Archives of sexual …, 2015 - Springer
In the US, HIV is concentrated among men who have sex with men (MSM), some of whom
have had female partners (MSMW). MSMW are disproportionately impacted by psychosocial …

Sex-related disparities in criminal justice and HIV treatment outcomes: a retrospective cohort study of HIV-infected inmates

JP Meyer, J Cepeda, FS Taxman… - American journal of …, 2015 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We evaluated sex-related differences in HIV and criminal justice (CJ) outcomes.
Methods. We quantified sex-related differences in criminal offenses, incarcerations, and HIV …

Dissolution of committed partnerships during incarceration and STI/HIV-related sexual risk behavior after prison release among African American men

MR Khan, JD Scheidell, CE Golin, SR Friedman… - Journal of Urban …, 2018 - Springer
Incarceration is strongly associated with post-release STI/HIV risk. One pathway linking
incarceration and STI/HIV risk may be incarceration-related dissolution of protective network …

Reducing risky relationships: a multisite randomized trial of a prison-based intervention for reducing HIV sexual risk behaviors among women with a history of drug …

HK Knudsen, M Staton-Tindall, CB Oser, JR Havens… - AIDS care, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Women involved in the criminal justice system, particularly those with a history of drug use,
are at elevated risk of HIV infection, yet few HIV prevention interventions have been tailored …