AIDS: Foundations For The Future

HIV and AIDS have posed new challenges to societies, communities and individuals. In many parts of the world, existing health and social services have been hard pressed to cope with the dermands of the epidemic. In hospitals and in the community, new approaches to health education, support and care have been developed. Non-governmental and community organizations have had a central role to play in responding to the challenge of HIV and AIDS. AIDS: Foundations for the Future highlights progress made over the last decade, and offers an agenda for future activism and research. This book examines the extent to which sound foundations for the future have been laid in public, private and voluntary sector action. It focuses on topics as diverse as workplace policy on HIV and AIDS, voluntary sector responses, the reactions of health care workers, the experience of living with AIDS, outreach work and community action, patterns of male prostitution, and new interventions to promote and maintain safer sex and safer drug use.

Peter Aggleton Goldsmiths' College, University of London. Peter Davies, Graham Hart.

Chapter 1 An Anatomy of the HIV/AIDS Voluntary Sector in Britain, Jeffrey Weeks, Austin Taylor-Laybourn, Peter Aggleton; Chapter 2 The Changing Context of Health Care in the UK: Implications for HIV/AIDS, Neil Small; Chapter 3 Empowerment or Disempowerment: The Limits and Possibilities of Workplace AIDS Policy, David Goss, Derek Adam-Smith; Chapter 4 Outreach, Community Change and Community Empowerment: Contradictions for Public Health and Health Promotion, Tim Rhodes; Chapter 5 Project Male-call: Class Differences in Sexual Practice, Pam Rodden, June Crawford, Susan Kippax; Chapter 6 Community vs. Population: The Case of Men who have Sex with Men, Michael Bartos; Chapter 7 Assimilating Safer Sex: Young Heterosexual Men's Understanding of 'Safer Sex', Daniel Wight; Chapter 8 Marital Discourse and Condom Use, Carla Willig; Chapter 9 Sexual Exchange: Understanding Pre-marital Heterosexual Relationships in Urban Ghana, Augustine Ankomah, Nicholas Ford; Chapter 10 Positive Sex: Sexual Relationships Following an HIV-Positive Diagnosis, Gill Green; Chapter 11 A Telling Tale: AIDS Workers and Confidentiality, Rosaline S. Barbour; Chapter 12 AIDS Policies in Kenya: A Critical Perspective on Prevention, Charles Nzioka; Chapter 13 Issues for HIV Prevention with Men who have Sex with Men: The Experience of MESMAC, Katie Deverell, Alan Prout, Tom Doyle; Chapter 14 Selling Safer Sex: Male Masseurs and Escorts in the UK, Ford Hickson, Peter Weatherburn, Julian and Hows, Peter Davies;