Titre : | Preventing hepatitis C: Common sense, the bug and other perspectives from the risk narratives of people who inject drugs (2004) |
Auteurs : | M. DAVIS ; T. RHODES ; A. MARTIN |
Type de document : | Article : Périodique |
Dans : | Social Science and Medicine (Vol.59, n°9, 2004) |
Article en page(s) : | 1807-1818 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | MAL (Maladies infectieuses / Infectious diseases) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus mots-clés HEPATITE ; INTERVIEW ; HISTOIRE ; SOCIAL ; CONDUITE A RISQUE ; VIH ; SURDOSE ; USAGERThésaurus géographique ANGLETERRE |
Résumé : | There is little published research about how people who inject drugs are responding to the hepatitis C epidemic. This study seeks to address the prevention of hepatitis C using qualitative interviews with people who inject drugs in London. We explored narratives about risk reduction and hepatitis C in the social and historical context of other risks such as HIV, vein damage and overdose. Themes of the narratives included: the importance of autonomy in the acquisition of safer injecting skills; that safer injection was regarded as 'common sense', normalised and predicated on the risk of HIV; that hepatitis C risk was relativised with HIV risk and thereby seen as less important; and that hepatitis C infection was also seen as unavoidable. These narrative forms represent significant challenges for the management of the hepatitis C epidemic, both in terms of the existing risk reduction efforts designed for HIV and in terms of the articulation of risk reduction for injectors with general public health policy. (Author's abstract.) |
Domaine : | Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs |
Refs biblio. : | 72 |
Affiliation : |
Ctr Res. Drugs Hlth Behav., Dept Soc. Sci. Med., Imperial Coll. London, The Reynolds Bldg, St Dunstan's Rd, London SW6 8RP Royaume-Uni. United Kingdom. |
Numéro Toxibase : | 506049 |
Centre Emetteur : | 05 Marmottan |
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