Anitra Pivnick
Biographic Data
| ID | 126151 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anitra Pivnick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anitra |
| FAMILY NAME | Pivnick |
| SIGNATURE | PIVNICK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Montefiore Medical Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Accessing Primary Care
Resilience and Risk
Aids, HIV infection, and illicit drug use within inner-city families and social networks
OBJECTIVES. Drug use is commonly depicted and treated as an individual problem. This study describes the extent of drug use, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) among drug users' sexual partners and family and household members in order to broaden considerations of risk. METHODS. Social network charts and structured interviews were administered to 126 women (predominantly African American an…
Loss and regeneration
Current approaches to the reduction of perinatal transmission of HIV infection among drug-using women focus on the content of counseling sessions which may include suggestions to abstain from sexual intercourse, to use barrier contraceptives, or to terminate pregnancy. The broader social and cultural issues which may influence some HIV positive women's decisions to have children (such as prolonged, unwanted separation from existing children; the …
HIV infection and the meaning of condoms
Chapter 1
Crack-using mothers are a population for whom punishment, rather than treatment, has been the norm. The following paper outlines a program for maternal crack users which is based on recent advances in feminist psychology and which defines the moment of childbearing as an opportunity to help women heal those critical relationships which have been fractured by the cycle of drugs and poverty
Reproductive Decisions among HIV-infected, Drug-Using Women
In this article we examine the influence of personal, social, and cultural factors, in particular continuity of mother-child coresidence, on the reproductive decisions of HIV-positive, women drug users. Among these women, decisions to terminate a pregnancy were found to be most significantly associated with continuity of mother-child coresidence. We explore the policy implications of this finding
HIV infection and the meaning of condoms
Loss and regeneration
Current approaches to the reduction of perinatal transmission of HIV infection among drug-using women focus on the content of counseling sessions which may include suggestions to abstain from sexual intercourse, to use barrier contraceptives, or to terminate pregnancy. The broader social and cultural issues which may influence some HIV positive women's decisions to have children (such as prolonged, unwanted separation from existing children; the …
Reproductive Decisions among HIV-infected, Drug-Using Women
In this article we examine the influence of personal, social, and cultural factors, in particular continuity of mother-child coresidence, on the reproductive decisions of HIV-positive, women drug users. Among these women, decisions to terminate a pregnancy were found to be most significantly associated with continuity of mother-child coresidence. We explore the policy implications of this finding
Resilience and Risk
Aids, HIV infection, and illicit drug use within inner-city families and social networks
OBJECTIVES. Drug use is commonly depicted and treated as an individual problem. This study describes the extent of drug use, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) among drug users' sexual partners and family and household members in order to broaden considerations of risk. METHODS. Social network charts and structured interviews were administered to 126 women (predominantly African American an…
Reproductive Decisions among HIV-infected, Drug-Using Women
In this article we examine the influence of personal, social, and cultural factors, in particular continuity of mother-child coresidence, on the reproductive decisions of HIV-positive, women drug users. Among these women, decisions to terminate a pregnancy were found to be most significantly associated with continuity of mother-child coresidence. We explore the policy implications of this finding
Chapter 1
Crack-using mothers are a population for whom punishment, rather than treatment, has been the norm. The following paper outlines a program for maternal crack users which is based on recent advances in feminist psychology and which defines the moment of childbearing as an opportunity to help women heal those critical relationships which have been fractured by the cycle of drugs and poverty
HIV infection and the meaning of condoms
Aids, HIV infection, and illicit drug use within inner-city families and social networks
OBJECTIVES. Drug use is commonly depicted and treated as an individual problem. This study describes the extent of drug use, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) among drug users' sexual partners and family and household members in order to broaden considerations of risk. METHODS. Social network charts and structured interviews were administered to 126 women (predominantly African American an…
Loss and regeneration
Current approaches to the reduction of perinatal transmission of HIV infection among drug-using women focus on the content of counseling sessions which may include suggestions to abstain from sexual intercourse, to use barrier contraceptives, or to terminate pregnancy. The broader social and cultural issues which may influence some HIV positive women's decisions to have children (such as prolonged, unwanted separation from existing children; the …
Resilience and Risk
Accessing Primary Care
Medicine (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Family medicine (5 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (5 works) · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV (5 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)