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In today's highly emotional HIV/AIDS debates, HIV risk behaviors are often simplistically described as a matter of """"human choice,"""" with little attention paid to the complex social, environmental, cultural, and economic factors impacting these choices. It is critically important to understand not only the science of the disease but also the behavioral and sociocultural influences that both facilitate, and prevent the spread of HIV.This unique teaching kit - a research-based resource for a diverse audience, including academics, students, and health professionals - facilitates this understanding. The book covers the biomedical, social, psychological, and behavioral aspects of AIDS, thus providing a multidisciplinary view of prevention and treatment.""""The Complete HIV/AIDS Teaching Kit"""" offers an overview of what science knows about the incidence, prevalence, antecedents, consequences, prevention, and treatment of HIV/AIDS and is organized in four parts: HIV/AIDS: The Epidemic; Preventing AIDS; Living with HIV/AIDS; and Gender, Culture, and HIV/AIDS.

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Josefina J. Card, PhD, is Founder, President, and CEO of Sociometrics Corporation, an applied social science research and development (R&D) company based in Los Altos, CA. Dr. Card is a nationally recognized social scientist and an expert in the establishment and operation of research-based social science resources, products and services. Angela Amarillas, MA, is a program manager at the California Healthy Kids Resource Center. Alana Conner, PhD, is the senior editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, a quarterly publication of the Stanford Graduate School of Business that presents new ideas for social change to nonprofit, business, and government leaders. Conner has written about social science and health for National Geographic Television, the New York Times Magazine, Static, and other venues. Diana Dull Akers, PhD, is a Senior Research Associate at Sociometrics Corporation where she has served as Principal Investigator for a number of federally funded projects concerning adolescent reproductive health and adult HIV/AIDS prevention. Julie Solomon, PhD, serves as a Senior Research Associate and the Director of Training Support at Sociometrics Corporation. Dr. Ralph J. DiClemente, PhD, is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Public Health and associate director, Emory Center for AIDS Research. He holds concurrent appointments as professor in the School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Immunology; and the Department of Psychiatry. He was most recently chair, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University.

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