Preventing AIDS

This book is designed to help frontline prevention organizations answer two questions that are of utmost importance. First, how effective are their services; and second, can their work be improved? The absence of rigorous evaluation is a barrier to stable funding for community organizations, and the strategies in Preventing AIDS: Community-Science Collaborations can help overcome that barrier. The book examines six unique efforts to prevent the spread of AIDS among high-risk populations such as prostitutes, injection drug users, impoverished pregnant women, migrant workers, transgendered persons, and prison inmates. You'll learn about the difficult but critically important cooperative efforts between community organizations who do frontline prevention work and university scientists who evaluate the effectiveness of that work. Handy tables and figures make important data easy to access and understand. To view an excerpt online, find the book in our QuickSearch catalog at www.HaworthPress.com.