Globalising discourses of HIV treatment scale-up emphasise a meta-narrative of hope and restitution for the HIV pandemic. Between 2005 and 2007, we undertook qualitative baseline and longitudinal research with people living with HIV/AIDS in the transitional setting of Serbia. We draw here upon...

Parents who use drugs parent in a context of heightened concern regarding the damaging effects of parental drug use on child welfare and family life. Yet there is little research exploring how parents who use drugs account for such damage and its limitation. We draw here upon analyses of...

As access to paediatric antiretroviral therapy (ART) continues to improve in sub-Saharan Africa, a new historically specific cohort of HIV-perinatally infected children surviving into adolescent has emerged. Although remarkable successes have been made clinically in keeping this cohort alive and...

HIV-positive refugees confront a variety of challenges in accessing and adhering to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and attaining durable viral suppression; however, there is little understanding of what these challenges are, how they are navigated, or how they may differ across humanitarian...

Whereas most research investigating drug use transitions narrows its analyses around the individual and their decision-making, we explore how personal narratives of drug transition interplay with broader narratives of social and economic change in a ‘transition society’ of post-Soviet...

Research on "risk behaviour" in the time of AIDS has emphasised how social relationships influence individuals' responses to risk. Yet the social relationship remains an under-utilised unit of analysis in risk behaviour research. Drawing on qualitative research with illicit drug users in London,...

We undertook a qualitative study to explore the micro-environment of drug injecting, risk reduction and syringe exchange practices among injecting drug users (IDUs) in Togliatti City, Russia. Semi-structured qualitative interviews (n=57) were undertaken with current IDUs in May 2001. Findings...

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...

Some of the findings from a national survey of 3754 community nursing staff in England regarding their experience of and preparation for working with HIV infection and AIDS are reported. The current absence of confidence to deal with HIV infection is explained and suggestions made regarding the...

'Rapid assessment' (RA) methods have the potential to generate important public health information. This potential is now the subject of debate within the substance use field. Despite this, much remains unknown about the application and outcomes of RAs on substance use, a situation compounded by...