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Using a “Positive Deviance” Framework to Discover Adaptive Risk Reduction Behaviors Among High-Risk HIV Negative Black Men Who Have Sex with Men by Ober, A. J., Dangerfield, D. T., Shoptaw, S., Ryan, G., Stucky, B., Friedman, S. R.

“…Despite the high incidence of HIV among young Black MSM in the United States and engagement in high risk behaviors, many men in this group avoid infection…”
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Structural interventions: concepts, challenges and opportunities for research by Blankenship, K M, Friedman, S R, Dworkin, S, Mantell, J E

“…Structural interventions refer to public health interventions that promote health by altering the structural context within which health is produced and…”
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Sexual Risk and Transmission Behaviors, Partnerships and Settings Among Young Adult Nonmedical Opioid Users in New York City by Friedman, S. R., Mateu-Gelabert, P., Ruggles, K. V., Goodbody, E., Syckes, C., Jessell, L., Teubl, Jennifer, Guarino, H.

“…Nonmedical prescription opioid use has become widespread. It can lead to heroin use, drug injection and HIV infection. We describe young adult opioid users’…”
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Measuring the effects of an international health professions faculty development fellowship: the FAIMER Institute by Burdick, W. P., Diserens, D., Friedman, S. R., Morahan, P. S., Kalishman, S., Eklund, M. A., Mennin, S., Norcini, J. J.

“…While there are many examples of evaluations of faculty development programs in resource rich countries, evaluation of transnational programs for faculty from…”
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A new approach to prevent HIV transmission: Project Protect intervention for recently infected individuals by Vasylyeva, T.I., Friedman, S.R., Smyrnov, P., Bondarenko, K.

“…Past research suggests that as many as 50% of onward human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmissions occur during acute and recent HIV infection. It is…”
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STI/HIV Sexual Risk Behavior and Prevalent STI Among Incarcerated African American Men in Committed Partnerships: The Significance of Poverty, Mood Disorders, and Substance Use by Khan, M. R., Golin, C. E., Friedman, S. R., Scheidell, J. D., Adimora, A. A., Judon-Monk, S., Hobbs, M. M., Dockery, G., Griffin, S., Oza, K. K., Myers, D., Hu, H., Medina, K. P., Wohl, D. A.

“…African Americans face disproportionate sexually transmitted infection including HIV (STI/HIV), with those passing through a correctional facility at…”
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Understanding the effects of different HIV transmission models in individual-based microsimulation of HIV epidemic dynamics in people who inject drugs by MONTEIRO, J. F. G., ESCUDERO, D. J., WEINREB, C., FLANIGAN, T., GALEA, S., FRIEDMAN, S. R., MARSHALL, B. D. L.

“…We investigated how different models of HIV transmission, and assumptions regarding the distribution of unprotected sex and syringe-sharing events (‘risk…”
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Performance Incentives and Means: How Regulatory Focus Influences Goal Attainment by Shah, James, Higgins, E. Tory, Friedman, Ronald S

“…Study 1 demonstrated that as individuals' promotion-related ideal strength increases, performance on an anagram task is greater for a monetary task incentive…”
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Immune cell trafficking to the islets during type 1 diabetes by Sandor, A. M., Jacobelli, J., Friedman, R. S.

“…Summary Inhibition of immune cell trafficking to the pancreatic islets during type 1 diabetes (T1D) has therapeutic potential, since targeting of T cell and B…”
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Wetting transition in water by Friedman, S R, Khalil, M, Taborek, P

“…Optical images were used to study the wetting behavior of water on graphite, sapphire, and quartz along the liquid vapor coexistence curve from room…”
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Keeping it together: Stigma, response, and perception of risk in relationships between drug injectors and crack smokers, and other community residents by Mateu-Gelabert, P., Maslow, C., Flom, P. L., Sandoval, M., Bolyard, M., Friedman, S. R.

“…Sexual relations between drug injectors (IDUs) and crack smokers (CS), and non-drug users are a major means of HIV spread to the broader population. However…”
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HIV incidence among injection drug users in New York City, 1992-1997: evidence for a declining epidemic by Des Jarlais, DC, Marmor, M, Friedmann, P, Titus, S, Aviles, E, Deren, S, Torian, L, Glebatis, D, Murrill, C, Monterroso, E, Friedman, SR

“…We assessed recent (1992-1997) HIV incidence in the large HIV epidemic among injection drug users in New York City. Data were compiled from 10 separate studies…”
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Factors associated with prevalent hepatitis C: differences among young adult injection drug users in lower and upper Manhattan, New York City by Diaz, T, Des Jarlais, DC, Vlahov, D, Perlis, TE, Edwards, V, Friedman, SR, Rockwell, R, Hoover, D, Williams, IT, Monterroso, ER

“…This study examined correlates of prevalent hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among young adult injection drug users in 2 neighborhoods in New York City…”
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Reduced risk of hepatitis B and hepatitis C among injection drug users in the Tacoma syringe exchange program by Hagan, H, Jarlais, D C, Friedman, S R, Purchase, D, Alter, M J

“…This case-control study examined the association between syringe exchange use and hepatitis B and C in injection drug users. Case patients included 28…”
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Sociometric risk networks and risk for HIV infection by Friedman, S R, Neaigus, A, Jose, B, Curtis, R, Goldstein, M, Ildefonso, G, Rothenberg, R B, Des Jarlais, D C

“…This study examined whether networks of drug-injecting and sexual relationships among drug injectors are associated with individual human immunodeficiency…”
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Relative prevalence of different sexually transmitted infections in HIV-discordant sexual partnerships: data from a risk network study in a high-risk New York neighbourhood by Friedman, S R, Bolyard, M, Sandoval, M, Mateu-Gelabert, P, Maslow, C, Zenilman, J

“…To determine infection patterns of sexually transmitted infections that facilitate HIV transmission among HIV-discordant couples. 112 initial respondents were…”
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New Measures for Research on Men Who Have Sex with Men and for At-Risk Heterosexuals: Tools to Study Links Between Structural Interventions or Large-Scale Social Change and HIV Risk Behaviors, Service Use, and Infection by Friedman, S. R., Pouget, E. R., Sandoval, M., Nikolopoulos, G. K., Mateu-Gelabert, P., Rossi, D., Auerbach, J. D.

“…Large-scale structural interventions and “Big Events” like revolutions, wars and major disasters can affect HIV transmission by changing the sizes of at-risk…”
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Parietal Contributions to Visual Feature Binding: Evidence from a Patient with Bilateral Lesions by Friedman-Hill, Stacia R., Robertson, Lynn C., Treisman, Anne

“…Neurophysiologists have documented the existence of multiple cortical areas responsive to different visual features. This modular organization has sparked…”
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Laws prohibiting over-the-counter syringe sales to injection drug users: relations to population density, HIV prevalence, and HIV incidence by Friedman, SR, Perlis, T, Des Jarlais, DC

“…This study sought to assess relations of laws prohibiting over-the-counter syringe sales (anti-OTC laws) to population prevalence of injection drug users and…”
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Behavioral risk reduction in a declining HIV epidemic: injection drug users in New York City, 1990-1997 by Des Jarlais, C, Perlis, T, Friedman, SR, Chapman, T, Kwok, J, Rockwell, R, Paone, D, Milliken, J, Monterroso, E

“…This study assessed trends in HIV risk behaviors among injection drug users in New York City from 1990 to 1997. Injection drug users were recruited…”
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