Will HIV vaccination reshape HIV risk behavior networks? A social network analysis of drug users' anticipated risk compensation.

An HIV vaccine could substantially impact the epidemic. However, risk compensation (RC), or post-vaccination increase in risk behavior, could present a major challenge. The methodology used in previous studies of risk compensation has been almost exclusively individual-level in focus, and has not ex...

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Main Authors: April M Young, Daniel S Halgin, Ralph J DiClemente, Claire E Sterk, Jennifer R Havens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4081575?pdf=render