The relationship between community structural characteristics, the context of crack use, and HIV risk behaviors in San Salvador, El Salvador.
This paper explores community structural factors in different low-income communities in the San Salvador, El Salvador, that account for differences in the social context in which crack is used and HIV risk behaviors among crack users. Results suggest that both more distal (type of low-income community, level of violent crime, and poverty) and proximate structural factors (type of site where drugs are used, and whether drugs are used within or outside of community of residence) influence HIV risk behaviors among drug users. Additionally, our results suggest that community structural factors influence the historical and geographic variation in drug use sites.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwuakee, Wisconsin 53202, USA. jdickson@mcw.edu
Julia
J
Dickson-Gomez
Timothy
T
McAuliffe
Lorena
L
Rivas de Mendoza
Laura
L
Glasman
Mauricio
M
Gaborit
D000328:Adult; D019970:Cocaine-Related Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D017280:Condoms / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016578:Crack Cocaine; D004544:El Salvador / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012111:Residence Characteristics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012309:Risk-Taking; D014171:Transients and Migrants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D047568:Unsafe Sex / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
D016578:Crack Cocaine