Document 0370
 DOCN  M9590370
 TI    Women, drug use and heterosexual sex.
 DT    9509
 AU    Berg R
 SO    Annu Conf Australas Soc HIV Med. 1994 Nov 3-6;6:121 (unnumbered
       abstract). Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE ASHM6/95291729
 AB    This paper reports on a survey of 300 drug using women, addressing the
       negotiation of safe heterosexual sex. The study examines condom use in
       relation to intoxication and addiction, sex work, perception of risk,
       relationships and short term partners and the meanings attached to
       condom use. The results highlight several problematic aspects of HIV
       prevention education targeting heterosexual women in Australia to date.
       These include: advising the same strategy for all women, attempting to
       motivate behaviour change through fear and distrust of one's partner,
       asking women to initiate and enforce condom use, rather than men or the
       couple together, expecting women who are sex workers or injecting drug
       users to approach their sexual relationships with men differently from
       other women. The paper concludes that an alternative approach, which is
       more flexible and consistent with prevailing discourse and the nature of
       women's current relationships with men, would be more effective.
 DE    *Condoms  Female  Gender Identity  Human  HIV Infections/*PREVENTION &
       CONTROL/PSYCHOLOGY/TRANSMISSION  Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
       Negotiating  Prostitution/*PSYCHOLOGY  *Sex Behavior  Substance
       Abuse/*PSYCHOLOGY  Substance Abuse, Intravenous/COMPLICATIONS/PSYCHOLOGY
       Substance Dependence/*PSYCHOLOGY  MEETING ABSTRACT

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