AIDS, Behavior, and Culture - Understanding Evidence-Based Prevention

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.

List of contents

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?

About the author

Edward C Green, Allison Herling Ruark

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Edward C Green, Allison Herling Ruark
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2011
• EAN: 9781598744781
• ISBN: 978-1-59874-478-1
• No. of pages: 300
• Weight: 720 g
• Illustrations: Farb., s/w. Abb.
• Series: Key Questions in Anthropology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)