Anthropology of AIDS. Risk environment and injecting routine. The case of Belgrade injecting drug users

Abstract

Risk environment is usually seen as physical and social one; first concerns physical space of injecting, while second deals with people who inject and their relations. Injecting routine is designation for set of IDUs habitual life. Management of risk related to HIV/HCV is reviewed and discussed after the results of qualitative anthropological research conducted among the Belgrade IDUs , due to establishing, performing and disrupting injecting routines within physical and social risk environments.