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Community based organizations assist participants in developing social skills and familiar language for negotiating and practicing safer, non-risky behaviors. AIDS education and awareness is best achieved in local community groups through the use of interactive group sharing and non-professional language. Supportive and informed mutual aid can be extended through community based organizations and can alleviate the psychological effects of isolation, homophobia, abandonment, and political disinterest created by society at large. AIDS therapy and prevention is best accomplished in settings that encourage one-to-one communication and compassion. The seventeen authors of this masterful compilation of AIDS research and policy make a strong case for community organizations as valiant warriors in one of this century's most threatening epidemics against humanity.
List of contents
Preface
Introduction
The Effectiveness of Community Based Organizations in the Medical Social Sciences: A Case Study of a Gay Community's Response to the AIDS Crisis by Johannes P. Van Vugt
Applying Ethnography to AIDS Prevention Among IV Drug Users and Social Policy Implications by Steve Koester
Implementing a Community Based AIDS Prevention Program for Ethnic Minorities by Merrill Singer, William Gonzalez, Evelyn Vega, Ivonnne Centeno and Lani Davison
HIV Prevention and African Americans: A Difference of Class by Benjamin Bowser
AWARE: A Community Based Research and Peer Intervention Program for Women by Judith B. Cohen, Pamela Derish and Lori Dorfman
Employing Community Based Intervention Programs in Public Health Education: A Retrospective by Richard Keeling and Eric Engstrom
The Community Research Initiative (CRI): Clinical Research and Prevention Treatments by Mark Harrington
The Gay Men's Health Crisis: A Model for Community Based Intervention by Margaret Reinfeld
Migrant AIDS Education: Social Participation and Ethnographic Evaluation by Keith V. Bletzer
The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP): A Direct Model of Community Research for AIDS Prevention by Maxine Wolfe
Conclusion
Epilogue
References Cited
Index
About the author
JOHANNES P. VAN VUGT is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Saint Mary's College of California. He has written
Democratic Organizations for Social Change: Latin America's Christian Based Communities and Literacy Campaigns (Bergin & Garvey, 1991).
