Study On The Characteristics Of Social Network And Its Impact On HIV/AIDS Related Behaviors Of Injection Drug Users

Objectives To explore the characteristics of injection drug users' social network, including drug associated network, sexual network, social-support network, and take a further step to explore the in-depth relationships between the networks and HIV/AIDS related behaviors. which will provide scientific basis for future intervention strategies.Methods Ziliujing and Da'an, two districts in Zigong city, Sichuan Province were chosen to be research fields. AIDS peer education volunteers in these counties were recruited in the study as initial seeds, and snowball sampling method was used to recruit more injection drug users in community, are chosen as core, snowball sampling are the method to bring into other community injection drug users. used in Chinese-UK HIV/AIDS Prevention and care Project and interview questionnaires were used to investigate the community injection drug users. Interview questionnaires were designed by professors and graduate students of...