When Communities Assess their AIDS Epidemics Results of Rapid Assessment of HIV/AIDS in Eleven U.S. Cities

by Bowser, Benjamin P.; Quimby, Ernest; Singer, Merrill; Goosby, Eric; Kushnick, Louis; Trotter II, Robert T.; Curtis, Ric; Conde, Alix; Irizarry, Maria; Wolf, Christina; LaKosky, Paul; Ward, Elijah; Ouellet, Lawrence J.; Perkins, William Eric; Metzger, Davi

• ISBN13: 9780739107522
• ISBN10: 0739107526
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-16
• Publisher: LEXINGTON BOOKS

Summary

When Communities Assess their AIDS Epidemics is a detailed ethnographic description of the AIDS epidemic in ten U.S. cities and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Author Biography

Benjamin P. Bowser is professor of sociology and social services at California State University at Hayward Ernest Quimby is graduate associate professor of sociology at Howard University Merrill Singer is director of the Center for Community Health Research at the Hispanic Health Council

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. xi
Exploring the Boundaries of the AIDS Epidemic in the U.S.	p. 1
Rapid Assessment: A Method in Community-Based Research	p. 9
Responding to the AIDS Crisis in Newark, New Jersey	p. 29
AIDS Health Emergency in Chicago	p. 47
Confined Youth Trying to Make It Real, Despite the Odds: RARE in Baltimore	p. 65
AIDS in Philadelphia: Emerging from the Shadow of Crack	p. 89
AIDS in the Shadow of Power: Washington, D.C.	p. 103
Rapid Assessment in Oakland: HIV, Race, Class, and Bureaucracy	p. 129
The AIDS Epidemic in Palm Beach County, Florida	p. 151
The Risks of Paradise: Project RARE and the Fight Against AIDS in the U.S. Virgin Islands	p. 163
The RARE Experience in Miami	p. 177
Twilight's Last Gleaning: Rapid Assessment of Late Night HIV Risk in Hartford, CT	p. 193
RARE Research in Preventing HIV Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Pima County, Arizona	p. 209
Conclusion: Assessing Primary, Secondary, and Future Benefits of Project RARE	p. 231
Index	p. 249
About the Contributors	p. 253
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