HIV, Health and Your Community: A Guide for Action
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by Reuben Granich, MD, MPH and Jonathan Mermin, MD, MPH
Illustrations: Mona Sfeir
Colleagues,
Please see our new HIV book at site below:
http://sites.netscape.net/hivbookusa/
It takes a grass-roots approach to preventing the spread of HIV. It
is liberally illustrated and written in simple language. All the au-
thors' proceeds will go to community-based AIDS organizations. We are
interested in getting the book into the hands of people who can
really use it -- thanks in advance for your interest and help. We
hope it makes a difference.
Reuben Granich
mailto:rgranich@dhs.ca.gov
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Book Description
This book is a comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide for health
workers throughout the world, notably in areas with few medical re-
sources. It could be equally useful in a rural village in southern
Africa, a major city in Thailand, or a Peace Corps worker's backpack.
Designed as a manual for people confronting the HIV epidemic in their
communities, it has been written to be easily accessible to those
without medical or technical knowledge and without prior training in
the prevention of HIV and the care of those with AIDS.
Topics range from the biology of the virus to designing prevention
programs, from the epidemiology of the disease to writing grant pro-
posals. The authors discuss explicitly the risk factors for infection
and suggest helpful methods for explaining them and assisting people
to change their behavior. They avoid extensive discussions of medical
treatments not available to the vast majority of the people in the
world who have HIV, focusing instead on public health interventions
that are possible in less industrialized settings. However, an appen-
dix aimed at readers with medical training discusses common HIV-
related illnesses and their treatment.
The authors use contemporary examples, most drawn from actual experi-
ence, to emphasize the growing prevalence of HIV and to reflect suc-
cessful prevention efforts by health workers around the world. Illus-
trations are used throughout the book to highlight important topics
and to increase the accessibility of the text.
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