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Some Data-Driven Reflections on Priorities in AIDS Network Research

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Risk networks can transmit HIV or other infections; social networks can transmit social influence and thus help shape norms and behaviors. This primarily-theoretical paper starts with a review of network concepts, and then presents data from a New York network study to study patterns of sexual and injection linkages among IDUs and other drug users and nonusers, men who have sex with men, women who have sex with women, other men and other women in a high-risk community and the distribution of HIV, sex at group sex events, and health intravention behaviors in this network. It then discusses how risk network microstructures might influence HIV epidemics and urban vulnerability to epidemics; what social and other forces (such as “Big Events” like wars or ecological disasters) might shape networks and their associated norms, intraventions, practices and behaviors; and how network theory and research have and may continue to contribute to developing interventions against HIV epidemics.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to acknowledge support from US National Institute on Drug Abuse project R01 DA13128 (Networks, Norms, and HIV/STI Risk among Youth) and its supplement (Networks, Norms and Risk in Argentina’s Social Turmoil); P30 DA11041 (Center for Drug Use and HIV Research) and Fogarty International Training and Research project D43 TW001037-06 (Mount Sinai New York State Argentina HIV Prevention).

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    Samuel R. Friedman, Melissa Bolyard, Pedro Mateu-Gelabert, Carey Maslow, Milagros Sandoval & Peter L. Flom

  2. Intercambios Civil Association, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Paula Goltzman, Maria Pia Pawlowicz, Dhan Zunino Singh, Graciela Touze & Diana Rossi

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Friedman, S.R., Bolyard, M., Mateu-Gelabert, P. et al. Some Data-Driven Reflections on Priorities in AIDS Network Research. AIDS Behav 11, 641–651 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-006-9166-7

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