AIDS, Drugs and Prevention

by Richard Hartnoll (Editor), Tim Rhodes (Editor)

Overview

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.
AIDS, Drugs and Prevention offers practical and theoretical insights into community-based health work in the time of AIDS. It provides invaluable reading for students, lecturers, researchers and practioners in health promotion, health policy, social work and medical sociology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134852840
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/11/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	800 KB

About the Author

Tim Rhodes is a medical sociologist at the Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, University of London. Richard Hartnoll is an epidemiologist at the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, Lisbon, Portugal.

Table of Contents

1 Individual and community action in HIV prevention: an introduction 2 Health promotion and the facilitation of individual change: the case of syringe distribution and exchange 3 Americans and syringe exchange: roots of resistance 4 AIDS prevention and drug policy: dilemmas in the local environment 5 ‘“E” types and dance divas’: gender research and community prevention 6 Gay community oriented approaches to safer sex 7 Prostitution and peer education: beyond HIV 8 Save sex/save lives: evolving modes of activism 9 The process of drug injection: applying ethnography to the study of HIV risk among IDUs 10 Promoting risk management among drug injectors 11 Heroin, risk and sexual safety: some problems for interventions encouraging community change 12 Ethnographic contributions to AIDS intervention strategies 13 Peer-driven outreach to combat HIV among IDUs: a basic design and preliminary results 14 Collective organisation of injecting: drug users and the struggle against AIDS

Editorial Reviews

An excellent introductory text for undergraduates, especially those with "sciencephobia." Slow-paced material incorporates information on genetics in the news, and features chapter outlines, real-life vignettes, technology timelines, key concepts, chapter glossaries, and review and applied questions, plus boxed readings on fun subjects like human werewolves, and color photos and diagrams. Includes sections on fundamentals, transmission genetics, DNA and chromosomes, population genetics, immunity and cancer, and the latest genetic technology. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

'a useful collection for anyone interested in the reality of risk taking, change and the scope of interventions' - Community Care

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