Preventing AIDS: A Guide to Effective Education for the Prevention of HIV Infection

by Nicholas Freudenberg

The book examines the content and method of AIDS education programmes nationally and synthesizes the collective wisdom of more than 130 AIDS educators. The book uses case histories of both successful and unsuccessful efforts to offer practical guidelines for assessing needs, developing materials, building coalitions, and evaluating success. It summarizes the past seven years experience in AIDS education and provides a framwork for making decisions. It addresses the special challenges of working with specific populations, including gay and bisexual males, IV drug users, African-Americans, Latinos, women, youth, prisoners, haemophiliacs, developmentally disabled people, and the homeless.

236 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1989

About the author

Nicholas Freudenberg is Distinguished Professor of Public Health at the City University of New York School of Public Health. For more than 30 years, he has worked with community groups, public agencies and others to create programs and policies that improve community health and reduce health inequalities. He is also co-director of the New York City Food Policy Center at Hunter College. His 2014 book Lethal but Legal, published by Oxford University Press,describes how corporations contribute to global epidemics of chronic diseases and injuries and how activists and health professionals can take action to change health-damaging corporate practices