‘Affording’ new approaches to couples who inject drugs: A novel fitpack design for hepatitis C prevention

In the West, hepatitis C is predominantly transmitted via the sharing of contaminated drug-injecting equipment. Although the majority of this sharing occurs between sexual partners, the responsibility for avoiding transmission has long been conceived as an individual responsibility, with prevention measures such as the distribution of sterile injecting equipment such as injecting packs ( ‘fitpacks’) aimed at individuals without regard for the social contexts of injecting. In this article we draw on the work of Bruno Latour to reconceptualise the fitpack.
Source: International Journal of Drug Policy - Category: Addiction Authors: Tags: Research paper Source Type: research