Browsing Ιατρική Σχολή / Medical School by Subject "Risk-taking"

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      Design and baseline findings of a large-scale rapid response to an HIV outbreak in people who inject drugs in Athens, Greece: The ARISTOTLE programme 

      Hatzakis, A.; Sypsa, V.; Paraskeva, D.; Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Tsiara, Chrissa G.; Micha, Katerina; Panopoulos, A.; Malliori-Minerva, Melpomeni; Psichogiou, M.; Pharris, Anastasia; Wiessing, L.; Laar, M. J. van de; Donoghoe, Martin; Heckathorn, Douglas D.; Friedman, Samuel R.; Jarlais, Don C. Des (2015)
      Aims: To (i) describe an intervention implemented in response to the HIV-1 outbreak among people who inject drugs (PWIDs) in Greece (ARISTOTLE programme), (ii) assess its success in identifying and testing this population ...
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      Developing Measures of Pathways that May Link Macro Social/Structural Changes with HIV Epidemiology 

      Pouget, E. R.; Sandoval, M.; Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Mateu-Gelabert, Pedro; Rossi, D.; Smyrnov, P.; Jones, Yolanda; Friedman, Samuel R. (2016)
      Macro-social/structural events (“big events”) such as wars, disasters, and large-scale changes in policies can affect HIV transmission by making risk behaviors more or less likely or by changing risk contexts. The purpose ...
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      Measuring Altruistic and Solidaristic Orientations Toward Others among People Who Inject Drugs 

      Friedman, Samuel R.; Pouget, E. R.; Sandoval, M.; Jones, Yolanda; Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Mateu-Gelabert, Pedro (2015)
      The altruism and/or solidarity of people who inject drugs helps protect sex and drug partners from HIV. Research has been hindered by lack of measures. We developed and administered scales to assess them to 300 people who ...
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      Socially-Integrated Transdisciplinary HIV Prevention 

      Friedman, Samuel R.; Jr, M. J. Downing; Smyrnov, P.; Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Schneider, J. A.; Livak, B.; Magiorkinis, Gkikas; Slobodianyk, L.; Vasylyeva, T. I.; Paraskeva, D.; Psichogiou, M.; Sypsa, V.; Malliori-Minerva, Melpomeni; Hatzakis, A. (2014)
      Current ideas about HIV prevention include a mixture of primarily biomedical interventions, socio-mechanical interventions such as sterile syringe and condom distribution, and behavioral interventions. This article presents ...