Community Interventions and AIDSEdison J. Trickett, Willo Pequegnat 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. |
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... perspective to a pressing public health problem. In so doing, the editors and authors of this book have added immeasurably to our understanding of how individual disease is embedded in layers of context. When HIV/AIDS first emerged, few ...
... perspective to a pressing public health problem. In so doing, the editors and authors of this book have added immeasurably to our understanding of how individual disease is embedded in layers of context. When HIV/AIDS first emerged, few ...
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... perspectives on how to best attack the AIDS pandemic has arisen. It has arisen in terms of methods, levels of analysis of intervention, the kinds of relationships between outsiders and insiders involved in these community-based ...
... perspectives on how to best attack the AIDS pandemic has arisen. It has arisen in terms of methods, levels of analysis of intervention, the kinds of relationships between outsiders and insiders involved in these community-based ...
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... perspective for those behavioral and social scientists who have made a commitment to understanding and intervening in communities around the world. In addition, efforts are made throughout to implicate social policy in these endeavors ...
... perspective for those behavioral and social scientists who have made a commitment to understanding and intervening in communities around the world. In addition, efforts are made throughout to implicate social policy in these endeavors ...
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... perspective. One means of assessing community impact involves the degree to which interventions are sustained over time after the initial program is ended. In Chapter 8, Jean Schensul focuses on the complexities of the sustainability ...
... perspective. One means of assessing community impact involves the degree to which interventions are sustained over time after the initial program is ended. In Chapter 8, Jean Schensul focuses on the complexities of the sustainability ...
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... perspectives underlying the science of community intervention, all these players have a critical stake in the dialectic such a change in perspective engenders. The chapters in the book provide a framework x Preface.
... perspectives underlying the science of community intervention, all these players have a critical stake in the dialectic such a change in perspective engenders. The chapters in the book provide a framework x Preface.
Contents
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HIV Circulating Knowledges and Local Resistances | 56 |
4 The State of the Art in Community HIV Prevention Interventions | 88 |
Implications to Community Impact and Sustainability | 105 |
Promise and Problems | 130 |
7 The Hartford Model of AIDS PracticeResearch Collaboration | 153 |
8 Sustainability in HIV Prevention Research | 176 |
How Can HIV Prevention Scientists Play an Effective Role in Practice? | 196 |
Theoretical and Methodological Considerations | 222 |
Overcoming Inadequacies of the Randomized Controlled Trial Paradigm | 249 |
12 Toward the Next Generation of AIDS Interventions With Community Impact | 278 |
Index | 287 |
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