AEGiS-BKREV: The Environmental Contexts of AIDS

The Environmental Contexts of AIDS

Praeger Publishers, One Madison Ave., New York, NY 10010. 214p., graphs, bibliog., index. ISBN 0-275-93618-X.
Marie A. Muir. 1991.

"The focus for this book has been to collect data that would be of use to those setting policy or concerned with HIV prevention, particularly interventions involving education and information." It also provides "a realistic framework for the general public to recognize that AIDS and HIV disease are serious concerns and that the interventions for mitigating the effects of the virus must be far ranging and innovative." A brief review of the AIDS problem is presented, followed with information on the health and environmental aspects, stressing education and information campaigns. The following six chapters cover the concerns for education and information of specific groups of individuals: general public, homosexual and bisexual males, injection drug users, adolescents and street youths, women, minorities, and special needs groups. A final chapter places all of this into perspective. This is a very well documented and researched book. Throughout the various chapters are "points to ponder" sections that present facts that figure greatly in doing research on AIDS. This would be a good book to read for background information and facts that have been brought together in one place. A very good and comprehensive set of safer-sex guidelines is given near the end of the book followed with an extensive bibliography. Recommended for all academic libraries as well as medical and large public libraries. (H. Robert Malinowsky)

Keywords: Environmental Aspects, Prevention & Control, Environmental Health, Health Promotion

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