1st Edition
AIDS, Behavior, and Culture Understanding Evidence-Based Prevention
300 Pages
by
Routledge
300 Pages
by
Routledge
300 Pages
by
Routledge
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AIDS, Behavior, and Culture presents a bold challenge to the prevailing wisdom of “the global AIDS industry” and offers an alternative framework for understanding what works in HIV prevention. Arguing for a behavior-based approach, Green and Ruark make the case that the most effective programs are those that encourage fundamental behavioral changes such as abstinence, delay of sex, faithfulness,... Read more
Introduction; 1: An Anthropological Approach to AIDS Prevention; 2: Sex, Culture, and Disease; 3: How the Global AIDS Response Went Wrong; 4: Refocusing HIV Prevention on Primary Prevention; 5: Primary Prevention in Concentrated Epidemics; 6: Facts and Myths about HIV Prevention in Generalized Epidemics; 7: Primary Behavior Change and HIV Decline; 8: HIV Prevention and Structural Factors; 9: Gender, Marriage, and HIV; 10: An Endogenous Response to AIDS; 11: Where to from Here?
Biography
Edward C Green, Allison Herling Ruark
