...Jeff Stryker Users of intravenous heroin, cocaine, and amphetamines risk the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) through the sharing of contaminated injection equipment. Although most users are aware of this risk, the scarcity of sterile needles and syringes, combined with various...

... who lack third-party coverage, modernizing the treatment system, developing new patterns of practice that use existing resources more efficiently, and developing a plan for treating intravenous drug users infected with the AIDS virus. In the private sector, the advent of working- and middle-class...

...Ann Boulis; Susan Goold; Peter A. Ubel In fall 1997, a shortage of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) developed in the United States because of increased demand for the product, reduced supply,and product recalls. This shortage is a useful model for understanding how our health care system responds...

...; gay and bisexual men; the general population with AIDS and HIV; spouses-partners of HIV-infected individuals; the public; patients; intravenous drug users; criminals and prisoners; and foreign nationals. Each group’s placement within the target population typology is shown in Figure 1. Before...

... those infected ceased to engage in sexual relations and stopped the illicit use of intravenous drugs and the sharing of hypodermic needles. But to state the behavioral requirements of prophylaxis is to confront daunting implications. The prospects for conquering this disease in the short run...

... American College of Radiology (ACR). 1990 . Current Criteria for the Use of Water Soluble Contrast Agents for Intravenous Injections. Reston, VA: American College of Radiology. Anderson , G. F. , M. A. Hall, and E. P. Steinberg. 1993 . Medical Technology Assessment and Practice Guidelines...

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...-thermometer scores for the following groups: African Americans, Hispanics, gay men, lesbians, poor people, intravenous drug users, and obese people. We measured implicit bias toward people who are (1) obese, (2) gay and lesbian, and (3) black using the Implicit Association Test (IAT; Greenwald et al...

... of Objectivity. American Journal of Sociology 77 ( 4 ): 660–79. Tuchman , Gaye . 1978 . Making News. New York: Free Press. Turner , Charles F. , Heather G. Miller, and Lincoln E. Moses. 1989 . AIDS: Sexual Behavior and Intravenous Drug Use. Washington, DC: National Academy press. 176...

... Paper: National Committee of Recruitment and Medical Presence. Leonidas H. Berry Papers, Box 5, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Washington, DC. Brown Jr. L. S. 1990 . Black Intravenous Drug Users: Prospects for Intervening in the Transmission of Human...

... it is imperative. The most effective way to prevent the spread of AIDS among intravenous drug abusers is for abusers to stop using drugs . . . therefore, high priority must be given to intravenous drug abuse treatment, in order to help addicts discontinue their intravenous drug use. However, while helping addicts...

... the appropriate therapy for one of the few diseases for which a scientifically-based cure then existed- pneumococcal pneumonia. There were about 40 types of pneumococ- cus, each with a unique type of capsular polysaccaride. Therapy consisted of the intravenous administration of an antibody, which...

... such therapy exists. Smits lbchnology Assessment 35 The clinical context of many interventions is very different in rich countries than it is in poorer ones. The development of oral therapy for cholera, for example, represented a major advance, even though intravenous...

... the virus among blacks and Hispanics was growing faster as a result of a newly observed linkage of crack, sex, and venereal disease. This new source of infection augmented to an ominous but unmeasurable extent its diffusion by needle sharing, by intravenous drug addicts having unprotected sex...

... of the effectiveness of street outreach and recovery programs for preventing the spread of AIDS among intravenous drug users. M.Gregg Bloche is associate professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center and co-director of the Georgetown-Johns Hopkins joint degree program in law and public health...

... Books Received AIDS AIDS and Ethics. Edited by Frederic G. Reamer. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. 317 pp. $29.50 cloth. Cocaine, AIDS, and Intravenous Drug Use. Edited by Samuel R. Friedman, Douglas S. Lipton, and Barry Stimmel. Binghamton, NY: Harrington Park, 1991. 124 pp...

..., and Intravenous Drug Use. Edited by Samuel R. Friedman, Douglas S. Lipton, and Barry Stimmel. Binghamton, NY: Harrington Park, 1991. 124 pp. $8.95 paper. How to Find Information about AIDS. Edited by Jeffrey T. Huber. Binghamton, NY: Harrington Park, 1992. 244 pp. $14.95 paper. If a Partner Has AIDS...

... 500,000 to 1 million-have already been exposed to HTIX- 111, of which number a definite but unknown subset will progress to AIDS.” AIDS is most frequently transmitted through intimate sexual contact, followed in frequency by the intravenous drug-user practice of sharing needles...

... presence among hemophiliacs and intravenous drug users, again asking why, but tell- ingly, he never posed why Kaposi’s sarcoma appeared among gay men. Even the angriest and least judgmental of these three reports did not find the first identification of the epidemic among gay men to be a puzzle...

... often for the intravenous drug abuse set-aside. 3. In 1982, 100 percent of the ADAMH allotment was earmarked for the two set-asides, in 1983 it was 95 percent, in 1984 it was 85 percent, and in 1985 the allotment decreased to 75 per- cent. In 1989 it increased again to 90 percent, where...