Boyfriends and injecting: the role of intimate male partners in the life of women who inject drugs in Central Java.
Cult Health Sex
; 14(5): 491-503, 2012.
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ABSTRACT
The international literature shows that HIV-risk behaviour for women mostly occurs in the context of intimate relationships. Power imbalances in the social, economic and cultural spheres put women at risk. This paper addresses the roles of male partners in women's engagement in drug-use behaviour and drug-related HIV-risk behaviour in Indonesia. Data were gathered through in-depth interviews with 19 women who had injected drugs in the previous month in three sites in central Java. Most of the women had male partners who also injected drugs. Results show that male partners play a significant role in the initiation of drug use, the provision of drugs, injecting behaviour and in the constitution of women injectors' social networks. These findings suggest the need to develop couple-based interventions and to facilitate women-only groups as part of HIV prevention.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Assunção de Riscos
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Drogas Ilícitas
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Infecções Sexualmente Transmissíveis
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Infecções por HIV
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Cônjuges
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Sexualidade
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Qualitative_research
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Cult Health Sex
Assunto da revista:
CIENCIAS DO COMPORTAMENTO
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CIENCIAS SOCIAIS
Ano de publicação:
2012
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Indonésia