AIDS, Behavior, and Culture: Understanding Evidence-Based Prevention - Couverture rigide

Green, Edward C; Ruark, Allison Herling

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 159874478X ISBN 13 : 9781598744781

Editeur : Left Coast Press Inc, 2011

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Edward C. Green is currently Director of the New Paradigm Fund in Washington DC and an Associate at the Johns Hopkins University. He was formerly a senior research scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health (2002-2010) and Director of the AIDS Prevention Research Project at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. He is the author of numerous books, edited volumes, and academic articles, including the seminal Rethinking AIDS Prevention: Learning from Successes in Developing Countries (Praeger, 2003). He has also published books and articles about indigenous knowledge and behaviors related to medicine and healing. Ms. Ruark is co-author, with Edward C. Green, of The ABC Approach to Preventing the Sexual Transmission of HIV: Common Questions and Answers (2007), a monograph that is being used by numerous non-governmental organizations and by the United States Agency for International Development.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Left Coast Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 159874478X
• ISBN 13: 9781598744781
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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