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 Emeritus of Public Health at the City University of New York School of Public Health. For more than 40 years, he has worked with activists, community groups, public agencies and others to create programs and policies that improve community health and reduce health inequalities. He was a co-founder and director of the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute. His most recent book is Fighting for New York Activism for Health and Social Justice Since the 1960s, published in 2026 by Columbia University Press.