| Titre : | Preventing hepatitis C : Common sense'the bug'and other perspectives from the risk narratives of people who inject drugs. (2004) |
| Auteurs : | Mark DAVIS ; Anthea Martin ; Tim RHODES ; Imperial College London. Department of Social Science and Medicine. Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour. London. GBR |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Social science and medicine (vol. 59, n° 9, 2004) |
| Pagination : | 1807-1818 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | Hépatite virale C ; Virose ; Infection ; Prévention santé ; Facteur risque ; Risque ; Médicament ; Sida ; VIH ; Rétrovirus ; Virus ; Royaume Uni ; Europe ; Europe sociale ; Attitude ; Homme ; Appareil digestif [pathologie] ; Foie [pathologie] |
| Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS FR0xfVAF. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. 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. |
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