1st Edition

AIDS, Drugs and Prevention

Edited By Richard Hartnoll, Tim Rhodes Copyright 1996
256 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

AIDS, Drugs and Prevention brings together a range of international contributions on the research, theory and practice of developing community-based HIV prevention. It 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... Read more
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

Biography

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.

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