Overview

A range of international contributions are brought together in this volume on the research, theory and practice of developing community-based HIV prevention. The work 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. The text offers practical and theoretical insights into community-based health work in the time of AIDS. It provides valuable reading for students, lecturers, researchers and practioners in health promotion, health policy, social work and medical sociology.

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Author:   Richard Hartnoll ,  Tim Rhodes
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780415102049

ISBN 10:   0415102049
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   04 July 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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

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

Author Information

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.

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