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The risk avoidance partnership : training active drug users as peer health advocates
(Le partenariat de réduction des risques : formation des usagers de drogues actifs comme conseillers de santé.)
Auteur(s) :
WEEKS, M. R. ;
DICKSON-GOMEZ, J. ;
MOSACK K. E. ;
CONVEY M. ;
MARTINEZ, M. ;
CLAIR, S.
Année
2006
Page(s) :
541-570
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
41
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Discipline :
MAL (Maladies infectieuses / Infectious diseases)
Note générale :
Journal of Drug Issues, 2006, 36, (3), 541-570
Résumé :
FRANÇAIS :
Les auteurs montrent l'intérêt des programmes de prévention des risques pour les usagers de drogues actifs qui prennent en compte le contexte social et les relations interpersonnelles dans lesquelles les pratiques à risque prennent place. Ces programmes sont basés sur la formation des usagers eux-mêmes comme acteurs de santé pour leurs pairs.
ENGLISH :
Efforts have expanded to create AIDS prevention programs for drug users that consider the social context and interpersonal relationships within which risky practices take place. The Risk Avoidance Partnership (RAP) project is designed to train active drug users as peer/public health advocates (PHAs) to bring a structured, peer-led intervention into the sites where they and their drug-using social networks use illicit drugs. The RAP peer health advocacy training curriculum and peer-led intervention promote harm reduction among drug users and support drug-user organization to reduce infectious disease and other harm in the context of injection drug use, crack cocaine use, and sexual activity. Initial findings suggest that RAP PHAs perceive a significant positive role change in themselves while conducting health advocacy work and willingly and successfully carry the peer-led intervention into locations of high-risk drug activity to deliver it to their peers even in the absence of project staff support. (Author' s abstract)
Les auteurs montrent l'intérêt des programmes de prévention des risques pour les usagers de drogues actifs qui prennent en compte le contexte social et les relations interpersonnelles dans lesquelles les pratiques à risque prennent place. Ces programmes sont basés sur la formation des usagers eux-mêmes comme acteurs de santé pour leurs pairs.
ENGLISH :
Efforts have expanded to create AIDS prevention programs for drug users that consider the social context and interpersonal relationships within which risky practices take place. The Risk Avoidance Partnership (RAP) project is designed to train active drug users as peer/public health advocates (PHAs) to bring a structured, peer-led intervention into the sites where they and their drug-using social networks use illicit drugs. The RAP peer health advocacy training curriculum and peer-led intervention promote harm reduction among drug users and support drug-user organization to reduce infectious disease and other harm in the context of injection drug use, crack cocaine use, and sexual activity. Initial findings suggest that RAP PHAs perceive a significant positive role change in themselves while conducting health advocacy work and willingly and successfully carry the peer-led intervention into locations of high-risk drug activity to deliver it to their peers even in the absence of project staff support. (Author' s abstract)
Affiliation :
Etats-Unis. United States.