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Criminal Law, Policing Policy, and HIV Risk in Female Street Sex Workers and Injection Drug Users

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Kim M. Blankenship  and
Stephen Koester
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In public health and the social sciences, there is growing recognition of the role that social context plays in determining health. Frequently, social relations of inequality are among the most important features of social context identified in this work, and emphasis is placed on identifying and addressing these inequalities in order to improve health. Within the field of HIV/AIDS prevention as well, researchers have begun to look beyond individuals for an understanding of the structural causes of HIV-related risk. This research demands that greater attention be paid to the social mechanisms and contextual factors that lead to HIV risk. Among these factors are law and social policy, which form a part of the context in which risk-taking occurs and which can promote both HIV transmission and prevention. On the one hand, laws limiting access to sterile injection equipment have contributed to HIV-related risk behavioxs among injection drug users (IDUS).

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , Winter 2002 , pp. 548 - 559
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2002

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