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AIDS, behavior, and culture : understanding evidence-based prevention /

This work presents a bold challenge to the prevailing wisdom of "the global AIDS industry" and offers an alternative framework for understanding what works in HIV. Arguing for a behavior-based approach, the authors make the case that the most effective programs are those that encourage fun...

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Main Author: Green, Edward C. 1944-
Other Authors: Ruark, Allison Herling.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, c2011.
Subjects:
AIDS (Disease) > Prevention.
AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects.
HIV infections > Prevention.
HIV infections > Social aspects.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > prevention & control.
HIV Infections > prevention & control.
Behavior.
Health Promotion.
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Table of Contents:
  • An anthropological approach to AIDS prevention
  • Sex, culture and disease
  • How the global AIDS response went wrong
  • Refocusing HIV prevention on primary prevention
  • Primary prevention in concentrated epidemics
  • Facts and myths about HIV prevention in generalized epidemics
  • Primary behavior change and HIV decline
  • HIV prevention and structural factors
  • Gender, marriage and HIV
  • An endogenous response to AIDS
  • Conclusion : where to from here?

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