When Communities Assess their AIDS Epidemics

Benjamin P. Bowser is professor of sociology and social services at California State University at Hayward. Ernest Quimby is graduate associate professor of sociology at Howard University. Merrill Singer is professor of anthropology and senior research scientist at the Center for Health, Intervention, and Prevention at the University of Connecticut.

• Chapter 1 Exploring the Boundaries of the AIDS Epidemic in the U.S.Chapter 2 Rapid Assessment: A Method in Community-Based ResearchChapter 3 Responding to the AIDS Crisis in Newark, New JerseyChapter 4 AIDS Health Emergency in ChicagoChapter 5 Confined Youth Try to Make it Real, Despite the Odds: RARE in BaltimoreChapter 6 AIDS in Philadelphia: Emerging from the Shadow of CrackChapter 7 AIDS in the Shadow of Power: Washington, D.C.Chapter 8 Rapid Assessment in Oakland: HIV, Race, Class, and BureaucracyChapter 9 The AIDS Epidemic in Palm Beach County, FloridaChapter 10 The Risks of Paradise: Project RARE and the Fight Against AIDS in the U.S. Virgin IslandsChapter 11 The RARE Experience in MiamiChapter 12 Twilight's Last Gleaning: Rapid Assessment of Late Night HIV Risk in Hartford, CTChapter 13 RARE Research in Preventing HIV among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Pima County, ArizonaChapter 14 Conclusion: Assessing Primary, Secondary, and Future Benefits of Project RARE

These detailed portraits of the AIDS epidemic in 11 US cities help us understand the dire consequences of failing to control a deadly disease. This book is must reading for those interested in AIDS as well as all who are concerned by threats to America's health.