Hiv Prevention. A Comprehensive Approach

Description

AIDS PREVENTION discusses all aspects of AIDS prevention, from epidemiology, molecular immunology and virology to the principles of broad-based public health prevention interventions. There are many new and exciting approaches being studied, including syndromic management of sexually transmitted diseases, use of antiretrovirals in HIV-uninfected individuals, as well as progress on vaccine and microbicide development that will be integrated into a discussion of the cultural and psychosocial issues that present challenges to AIDS prevention.

Key Features

• Discusses all aspects of AIDS prevention, from epidemiology, molecular immunology and virology to the principles of broad-based public health prevention interventions.
• Special focus on the array of interventions that have been proven effective through rigorous study
• Identifies new trends in HIV/AID epidemiology and their impact on creating and implementing prevention interventions
• Incorporates virology, biology, infectious diseases, vaccinology, microbicides and research methodologies into AIDS prevention

Contents

Introduction I. Section I: Contexts and Principles: epidemiology, applied virology, microbiology, infectious disease and behavioural psychology applied to the design of AIDS prevention interventions
Chapter 1: Current And Future Trends: Implications For Prevention
Chapter 2. Biology of HIV Transmission
Chapter 3: Principles and Theories of Behavior Applied to HIV Prevention II. Section II: Evidence-Based Prevention Interventions: programs for at-risk populations
Chapter 4. Individual Interventions
Chapter 5. Dyadic and Group Interventions
Chapter 6. Structural Interventions in Societal Contexts
Chapter 7: Voluntary Counselling and Testing
Chapter 8: Interventions With Men Who Have Sex With Men
Chapter 9. Interventions With Injecting Drug Users
Chapter 10: Interventions With Sex Workers
Chapter 11: Interventions With Youth in High Prevalence Areas
Chapter 12: Interventions With Incarcerated and Institutionalized Persons
Chapter 13. Preventing Perinatal Transmission III. Policy, Technology and Research: Biomedical technologies for prevention, testing and research
Chapter 14. Harm Reduction and Public Health
Chapter 15. STD Control for HIV Prevention
Chapter 16 Using Antiretrovirals to Prevent HIV Transmission
Chapter 17 Microbicides
Chapter 18 Vaccines
Chapter 19. Program Monitoring and Evaluation

Readership

Primary: Researchers and specialists in infectious diseases, public and global health, epidemiology, virology, immunology and behavioural sciences working on AIDS/HIV. Secondary: Health practitioners, graduate students in the above areas, NGOs and foundations.

Author Information

Edited by Kenneth H. Mayer, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA; and H.F. Pizer, Health Care Strategies, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA