AIDS in Europe: New Challenges for the Social Sciences (Social Aspects of Aids Series)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 11
Notes on contributors......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 20
Introduction......Page 22
Living with HIV and therapeutic advances......Page 32
Coping with a chronic illness: the experience of families of HIV-infected children......Page 34
HIV seropositivity, adaptation and everyday life in Greece......Page 47
Psychological and behavioural factors and the natural history of HIV infection......Page 57
Attitudinal factors and adherence to protease inhibitor combination therapy......Page 66
Living with HIV/AIDS and adherence to antiretroviral treatments......Page 78
New perspectives on sexuality......Page 96
Seropositivity, risk and sexuality......Page 98
Socio-economic status and HIV prevalence among gay men in Germany......Page 113
Condom use among 15 to 18 year-olds in France: changes in behaviour overtime......Page 124
Sexual revolution in Russia and the tasks of sex education......Page 140
Young people, social relationships and sexuality in Bulgaria......Page 156
Drug use: user and policy perspectives......Page 168
Risk behaviour and HIV infection in European prisons......Page 170
Drug users\' views and service evaluation......Page 186
Between public health and public order: harm reduction facilities and neighbourhood problems......Page 199
Drug use, AIDS and social exclusion in France......Page 210
Accounting for the epidemic......Page 226
The normalisation of AIDS policies in Europe: patterns, path dependency and innovation......Page 228
UK HIV testing practice: by how much might the infection diagnosis rate increase through normalisation?......Page 244
Modelling network structure: implications for the spread and prevention of HIV infection......Page 255
Understanding risk management: towards an integration of individual, interactive and social levels......Page 268
Index......Page 281