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by Johannes P. Van Vugt (Author)
Community based organizations assist participants in developing social skills and familiar language for negotiating and practicing safer, non-risky behaviors. AIDS education and awareness is best achieved in local community groups through the use of interactive group sharing and non-professional language. Supportive and informed mutual aid can be extended through community based organizations and can alleviate the psychological effects of isolation, homophobia, abandonment, and political disinterest created by society at large. AIDS therapy and prevention is best accomplished in settings that encourage one-to-one communication and compassion. The seventeen authors of this masterful compilation of AIDS research and policy make a strong case for community organizations as valiant warriors in one of this century's most threatening epidemics against humanity.
Author Biography
JOHANNES P. VAN VUGT is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Saint Mary's College of California. He has written Democratic Organizations for Social Change: Latin America's Christian Based Communities and Literacy Campaigns (Bergin & Garvey, 1991).
