HIV, Health and Your Community: A Guide for Action by Reuben Granich and Jonathan Mermin, Updated 2003

HIV, Health and Your Community is a thorough, easy-to-understand guide for health workers throughout the world. Designed as a manual for people confronting the HIV/AIDS pandemic in their communities, it is easily accessible to those with little medical or technical knowledge, and can provide life-saving information to people without prior training in HIV prevention or care for those living with AIDS. The authors focus on effective public health interventions, and discuss risk factors for infection and methods for helping people change behaviors. Topics range from the biology of the virus and the epidemiology of the disease, to the mechanics of designing prevention programs and writing grant proposals.

"This book is clear, concise, and accessible for the target audience. Its format and style is appealing, and I greatly commend it for making a difficult subject so easily digestible."
  Bunmi Makinwa, Communications Adviser, UNAIDS

"I found the book to be very thorough and was particularly happy to see the HIV test chapter this is an area where our programs face many questions... As I'm sure you are aware, one of the challenges of providing resource material even very user-friendly resource material is ensuring its effective use. As World Neighbors focuses more on HIV/AIDS in the coming year, we feel it is important that this type of guide be supported by some additional hands-on training. In East Africa, our program has worked with partners in the area of developing effective counseling skills and also has become more involved in youth programming and we find it very useful to have a resource guide, like this one, which is so clearly structured to support training activities."
  Catharine McKaig, DrPH, MS, Reproductive Health Coordinator, Africa Region, World   Neighbors

paperback 256 pages, illustrated
English ed. ISBN: 0-942364-40-6
(Spanish ed. not yet available)
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