Bowser, Benjamin P

When communities assess their AIDS epidemics : results of rapid assessment of HIV/AIDS in eleven U.S. cities [edited by] Benjamin P. Bowser, Ernest Quimby, and Merrill Singer. - Lanham Lexington Books c2007 - xii, 258 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Exploring the boundaries of the AIDS epidemic in the U.S. / Ernest Quimby, Merrill Singer and Benjamin P. Bowser -- Rapid assessment: a method in community-based research / Robert T. Trotter, II and Merrill Singer -- Responding to the AIDS crisis in Newark, New Jersey / Ric Curtis ... [et al.] -- AIDS health emergency in Chicago / Paul LaKosky, Elijah Ward, and Lawrence J. Ouellet -- Confined youth trying to make it real, despite the odds: RARE in Baltimore / Ernest Quimby -- AIDS in Philadelphia: emerging from the shadow of crack / William Eric Perkins and David Metzger -- AIDS in the shadow of power: Washington, D.C. / Ernest Quimby and Arvilla Payne-Jackson -- Rapid assessment in Oakland: HIV, race, class, and bureaucracy / Benjamin P. Bowser and Barbara Hill -- The AIDS epidemic in Palm Beach County, Florida / Karen Dodge and Barbara Feeney -- The risks of paradise: Project RARE and the fight against AIDS in the U.S. Virgin Islands / Agatha P. Nelson, Patricia R. Todman, and Merrill Singer -- The RARE experience in Miami / Louis Herns Marcelin and Bryan Page -- Twilight's last gleaning: rapid assessment of late night HIV risk in Hartford, CT / Merrill Singer and Julie Eiserman -- RARE research in preventing HIV among men who have sex with men in Pima County, Arizona / Halley Eisner-Freitas and Floyd Meeks -- Conclusion: assessing primary, secondary, and future benefits of project RARE / Merrill Singer, Benjamin P. Bowser, and Ernest Quimby.

9780739107522 (cloth : alk. paper) 0739107526 (cloth : alk. paper)

2006102794


AFRICAN AMERICANS--UNITED STATES
CITIES AND TOWNS--UNITED STATES
Risk Assessment - United States
COMMUNITY NETWORKS--UNITED STATES
HIV infections - United States
ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME--EPIDEMIOLOGY--UNITED STATES
ACQUIRED IMMUNO DEFICIENCY SYNDROME--PREVENTION & CONTROL--UNITED STATES
AIDS (DISEASE) -- UNITED STATES
Organizational Case Studies - United States

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