2010
DOI: 10.1177/1049732310375818
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Altruism and Peer-Led HIV Prevention Targeting Heroin and Cocaine Users

Abstract: Peer-delivered HIV prevention and intervention programs play an important role in halting the spread of HIV. Rigorous scientific analysis of the forementioned programs have focused on the immediate reduction of risk-related behaviors among the target populations. In our longitudinal study of the RAP Peer Intervention for HIV, we assessed the long-term behavioral effects of a peer-led HIV intervention project with active drug users. Initial analysis of the qualitative data highlights the role of altruism as a m… Show more

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“…The expressed altruism, the wanting to do “good” and to help others, is a consistent finding in studies with IDUs (Convey, Dickson-Gomez, & Weeks, 2010; Fry & Dwyer, 2001; Ott, Evans, Halpern-Felsher, & Eyre, 2003). Participants often described the interview and survey experience as something that benefited them.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 74%
“…The expressed altruism, the wanting to do “good” and to help others, is a consistent finding in studies with IDUs (Convey, Dickson-Gomez, & Weeks, 2010; Fry & Dwyer, 2001; Ott, Evans, Halpern-Felsher, & Eyre, 2003). Participants often described the interview and survey experience as something that benefited them.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 74%
“…It should not be surprising that many PWID acted selflessly in helping other drug users and non-drug users, given plentiful prior evidence of altruistic behavior among PWID (Convey, Dickson-Gomez, Weeks, & Li, 2010; Friedman, et al, 2004; Mateu-Gelabert, et al, 2008). Nonetheless, it is important to note that the helping behaviors reported by PWID in this study contradict stereotypes of drug users as utterly self-centered and destructive.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We interpreted this pattern of results as resulting from altruistic orientations that led participants in this project not to risk infecting those who were otherwise not at high risk. Later research by our group (2, 3) and others (4, 5) supported the importance of altruism and solidarity among drug users and among HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM). We have shown in our articles on “intravention” (in which we ask PWID and others at HIV risk (8 - 10) to describe how they try to get other people to protect their health) that actions that seem to express altruism and/or solidarity with others are widespread among PWID and other key populations.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 78%
“…Previous research (15) suggests that their relationship with behavior depends on the respondent's HIV status, the HIV status of the people they have sex or inject drugs with, and (if this is unknown), whether a partner is a non-injector (and thus is perceived as much less likely to be infected.) Research at the dyadic level of analysis is needed to study relationships among altruism and solidarity, on the one hand, and risk and transmission behaviors, on the other .…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%