AIDS and Intravenous Drug Abuse Among Minorities

• NCJ Number: 129719
• Date Published: 1989
• Length: 111 pages
• Corporate Author: National Institute on Drug Abuse
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Type: Best Practice/State-of-the-Art Review
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Based on papers presented at a technical review meeting sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Brooklyn, N.Y. in December 1987

Annotation

This report summarizes 11 presentations at a 1989 meeting that examined the sociodemographic variables that contribute to personal behaviors associated with the transmission of HIV among minority intravenous drug abusers.

Abstract

Individual papers examine epidemiological information on the spread of AIDS among minority intravenous drug abusers and ethnic differences in HIV infection rates among intravenous drug users. Additional papers describe AIDS prevention efforts in a black community in Los Angeles, among Hispanic youths and families in large cities in the United States, and in United States Asian and Pacific Islander populations. Further papers consider perinatally acquired AIDS, HIV infection in prisons, HIV infection among prostitutes, the relationship between minority health status and AIDS, and health care financing issues. Footnotes, tables, and chapter reference lists