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AIDS, drugs and prevention : perspectives on individual and community action
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AIDS, Drugs and Prevention brings together a range of international contributions on the research, theory and practice of developing community-based HIV prevention. It aims to understand how indivi...
AIDS, Drugs and Prevention brings together a range of international contributions on the research, theory and practice of developing community-based HIV prevention. It aims to understand how individual actions to prevent HIV transmission are constrained and encouraged by situational and social context. Drawing on ethnographic and epidemiological research among populations of drug users, sex workers and gay men, it explores how future HIV prevention interventions can target changes at the level of the individual as well as at the level of the community and wider social environment.
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- edited by Tim Rhodes and Richard Hartnoll
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 2nd ed
- London : Routledge, 1996
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781134852840, 1134852843, 9780203200230, 0203200233, 9780203300886, 0203300882, 9781280325380, 1280325380, 9781134852857, 1134852851, 0415102049, 0415102030
- OCLC
- ocn276791721, on1000426456
- First published: 1996.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Individual and community action in HIV prevention: an introduction Tim Rhodes; Health promotion and the facilitation of individual change: the case of syringe distribution and exchange Gerry V.Stimson and Martin C.Donoghoe; Americans and syringe exchange: roots of resistance John K.Watters; AIDS prevention and drug policy: dilemmas in the local environment Richard Hartnoll and Dagmar Hedrich; '~E~ types and dance divas': gender research and community prevention Sheila Henderson
- Gay community oriented approaches to safer sex Graham HartProstitution and peer education: beyond HIV Marina Barnard and Neil McKeganey; Save sex/save lives: evolving modes of activism Cindy Patton; The process of drug injection: applying ethnography to the study of HIV risk among IDUs Stephen Koester; Promoting risk management among drug injectors Robert Power; Heroin, risk and sexual safety: some problems for interventions encouraging community change Tim Rhodes and Alan Quirk; Ethnographic contributions to AIDS intervention strategies Wayne Wiebel
- Peer-driven outreach to combat HIV among IDUs: a basic design and preliminary results Jean-Paul C.Grund, Robert Broadhead, Douglas D.Heckathorn, L.Synn Stern and Denise L.AnthonyCollective organisation of injecting: drug users and the struggle against AIDS Benny Jose, Samuel R.Friedman, Alan Neaigus, Richard Curtis, Meryl Sufian, Bruce Stepherson and Don C.Des Jarlais