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Community based organizations assist participants in developing social skills and familiar language for negotiating and practicing safer, non-risky behaviors. AIDS education and awareness is best achieved in local community groups through the use of interactive group sharing and non-professional language. Supportive and informed mutual aid can be extended through community based organizations and can alleviate the psychological effects of isolation, homophobia, abandonment, and political disinterest created by society at large. AIDS therapy and prevention is best accomplished in settings that encourage one-to-one communication and compassion. The seventeen authors of this masterful compilation of AIDS research and policy make a strong case for community organizations as valiant warriors in one of this century's most threatening epidemics against humanity.

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AIDS Prevention and Services: Community Based Research is a path-finding book. Through the first-hand experience of anthropoligists, sociologists, epidemiologists, activists, and others working in the community with people most affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, we are led to an understanding that we need to reframe--and reform--government responses to the epidemic. -Philip R. Lee M.D. and Pat Franks Institute for Health Policy Studies University of California, San Francisco

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JOHANNES P. VAN VUGT is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Saint Mary's College of California. He has written Democratic Organizations for Social Change: Latin America's Christian Based Communities and Literacy Campaigns (Bergin & Garvey, 1991).

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