1. This issue of the Journal of Urban Health

   EditorialNotes Pages: 303 - 305

2. Syringe availability as HIV prevention: A review of modalities

   • Phillip Coffin

   Special Feature: Substance Use and HIV Prevention Pages: 306 - 330

3. Methadone treatment and hiv and hepatitis band C risk reduction among injectiors in the seattle area

   • Hanne Thiede
   • Holly Hagan
   • Christopher S. Murrill

   Original Articles: Substance Use and HIV Prevention Pages: 331 - 345

4. Characteristics and utilization patterns of needle-exchange attendees in Chicago: 1994–1998

   • Heena Brahmbhatt
   • Dan Bigg
   • Steffanie A. Strathdee

   Original Articles: Substance Use and HIV Prevention Pages: 346 - 358

5. Drug injection rates and needle-exchange use in New York City, 1991–1996

   • Michael Marmor
   • Roy E. Shore
   • Don C. Des Jarlais

   Original Articles: Substance Use and HIV Prevention Pages: 359 - 368

6. Changes in injection risk behavior associated with participation in the seattle needle-exchange program

   • Holly Hagan
   • Hanne Thiede

   Original Articles: Substance Use and HIV Prevention Pages: 369 - 382

7. Pretest assessment as a component of safer sex intervention: A pilot study of brief one-session interventions for women partners of male injection druc users in New York city

   • Beatrice J. Krauss
   • Lloyd Goldsmat
   • Michael Palij

   Original Articles: Substance Use and HIV Prevention Pages: 383 - 395

8. Gender differences in the initiation of injection drug use among young adults

   • Meg C. Doherty
   • Richard S. Garfein
   • David Vlahov

   Original Articles: Substance Use and HIV Prevention Pages: 396 - 414

9. Differences in AIDS knowledge among Spanish and English speakers by socioeconomic status and ability to speak English

   • Jane E. Miller

   Original Articles: Substance Use and HIV Prevention Pages: 415 - 424

10. Involving women in HIV vaccine efficacy trials: Lessons learned from a vaccine prepared ness study in New York City

    • Pamela Brown-Peterside
    • Mary Ann Chiasson
    • Beryla Koblin

    Original Articles: Substance Use and HIV Prevention Pages: 425 - 437

11. The intersection of injecting drug use and HIV/AIDS in New York City

    • Neal L. Cohen
    • David A. Hansell
    • Susan Forlenza

    Urban Health Data Pages: 438 - 442

12. Health promotion in the city: A structured review of the literature on interventions to prevent heart disease, substance abuse, violence and HIV infection in us metropolitan areas, 1980–1995

    • Nicholas Freudenberg
    • Diana Silver
    • Marjorie Speers

    Special Report Pages: 443 - 457

13. Report on drug addiction

    • The New York Academy of Medicine
    • Committee on Public Health
    • Subcommittee on Drug Addiction

    Classic Paper Pages: 458 - 479

14. Women living with HIV: Disclosure, violence, and social support

    • Andrea Carlson Gielen
    • Linda Fogarty
    • Ruth Faden

    Original Articles: Various Topics Pages: 480 - 491

15. Antiretroviral therapy and declining AIDS mortality in New York City

    • T. Wong
    • M. A. Chiasson
    • V. Loo

    Original Articles: Various Topics Pages: 492 - 500

16. Black-white differences in sentinel causes of death: Counties in large metropolitan areas

    • Anthony P. Polednak

    Original Articles: Various Topics Pages: 501 - 507