Edward C Green, Allison Herling Ruark

AIDS, Behavior, and Culture

Understanding Evidence-Based Prevention

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Arguing for a behavior-based approach, Green and Ruark make the case that the most effective AIDS programs are those that encourage fundamental behavioral changes such as abstinence, delay of sex, faithfulness, and cessation of injection drug use.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 591g
• ISBN-13: 9781598744781
• ISBN-10: 159874478X
• Artikelnr.: 28222277

Autorenporträt

Edward C Green, Allison Herling Ruark

Inhaltsangabe

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?