Community interventions and AIDS

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Author:

Trickett, Edison J.

ISBN:

9780195160239

Publication Information:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 296 p.) : ill.

Contents:

Community interventions and HIV/AIDS: affecting the community context / Edison J. Trickett -- implications for conceptualization, implementation, and evaluation of interventions / Hirokazu Yoshikawa ... [et al.]. Narrative insurrections: HIV, circulating knowledges, and local resistances / Eric Stewart and Julian Rappaport / Multiple pathways to community-level impacts in HIV prevention -- The state of the art in community HIV prevention interventions / Jeffrey A. Kelly -- implications to community impact and sustainability / Carl A. Latkin and Amy R. Knowlton / Social network approaches to HIV prevention -- promise and problems / Robert T. Trotter II and Merrill Singer / Rapid assessment strategies for public health -- The Hartford model of AIDS practice/research collaboration / Merrill Singer and Margaret Weeks -- Sustainability in HIV prevention research / Jean J. Schensul -- how can HIV prevention scientists play an effective role in practice? / Robin Lin Miller and George J. Greene / Transferring HIV prevention technology to community-based organizations -- theoretical and methodological considerations / Ralph J. Diclemente, Richard A. Crosby, and Gina M. Wingood -- / Community HIV prevention interventions.

The tyranny of clinical trials: alternative designs for assessing individual and community level impact / Bruce Rapkin with Edison J. Trickett -- Toward the next generation of AIDS interventions with community impact / Willo Pequegnat.

Subject Term:

AIDS (Disease) -- Prevention.

Community health services.

Added Author:

Trickett, Edison J.

Pequegnat, Willo.

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As news headlines report staggering numbers of people infected with HIV or AIDS across the globe and as stereotypes of typical AIDS patients become less and less specific to particular sexual orientations and ethnic backgrounds, the AIDS pandemic shows little sign of relenting. AIDS crosses geopolitical and social barriers, and social and behavioral scientists are confronted with the new challenge of developing scientific inquiry and corresponding interventions around participatory, community-based, and community-focused methods. These interventions are increasingly targeting the contextual influences on individual behavior, such as peer groups, social networks and support systems, and community norms. Community-level interventions also draw on local resources and are respectful of sociocultural circumstances and traditions. This book articulates how the social and behavioral sciences can respond to HIV/AIDS. It is written for all who have a stake in AIDS research, stimulating discussion and debate about the natures of community research and intervention broadly across such disciplines as public health, community health education, urban planning, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and philosophy of science. The book proposes alternative perspectives on means of ascertaining knowledge about the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the inclusion of community collaboration in interventions.