Susan G. Sherman

TL;DR: Although data characterising HIV risk among female sex workers is scarce, the burden of disease is disproportionately high and suggests an urgent need to scale up access to quality HIV prevention programmes.

TL;DR: The Johns Hopkins-Lancet Commission on Drug Policy and Health as mentioned in this paper examined the emerging scientific evidence on public health issues arising from drug control policy and to inform and encourage a central focus on health evidence and outcomes in drug-policy debates, such as the important deliberations of the 2016 UNGASS on drugs.

TL;DR: Results suggest that psychosocial intervention emphasizing prosocial roles and social identity, and incorporating peer outreach strategies, can reduce HIV risk in low-income, drug-using communities.

TL;DR: Examination of the relationship between condom use, condom norms, and social network characteristics among a sample of economically impoverished individuals at risk for acquiring and transmitting HIV found that reported condom use was strongly associated with peer norms about condom use.

TL;DR: Results from a 10-year prospectiveAnalysis of the ALIVE study and an analysis of the REACH studies spanning a 7-year period indicate that sexual risk factors for HIV infection are important in both female and male IDUs, underscore the need for HIV interventions among drug users that incorporate sexual risk reduction.