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From the start of the AIDS epidemic, efforts have been made to bring together the medical, psychological, and social dimensions of HIV. International AIDS conferences soon became a forum for integration of effort and communication to achieve that goal. This British publication highlights major themes by including papers based on the international AIDS Impact Conferences held in Amsterdam, Brighton, and Melbourne. The contents are structured in four thematic sections that emerged from the Brighton Conference: prevention, drugs, gender issues, and care and treatment. Each section contains a selection of papers that illustrate the complexity of the subject and review a particular topic or highlight a specific form of intervention with important theoretical and practical implications. Although each chapter provides a self-contained perspective on a particular topic, the papers should be viewed in their totality. The complexities of prevention and care cannot be disentangled from the reality of social, political, economic, and gender issues, and the goal of this collection is to examine a number of bio-psycho-social issues posed by HIV and to contribute to the understanding of its impact on individuals and societies throughout the world. Appropriate for behavioral science collections. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. J. M. Howe; VA Medical Library, San Francisco
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