A Community Approach to AIDS Intervention: Exploring the Miami Outreach Project for Injecting Drug Users and Other High Risk Groups

by Dale D. Chitwood and James A. Inciardi

Written by researchers at a federally funded outreach program to combat the spread of AIDS, this book analyzes the efforts of the Miami Community Outreach Project to intervene in AIDS-related risk behavior among intravenous drug users and their sexual partners. The work provides background information on the history of AIDS, the risk behaviors of drug abusers, and federal intervention programs. It discusses the prevalence of the HIV virus in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313273197
• ISBN13: 9780313273193
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.9"