ABSTRACT
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the most important themes in German HIV/AIDS prevention and care from the beginning of the epidemic to the present. Multidisciplinary in approach, it highlights the unique contributions of Germany to AIDS work, making available for the first time knowledge which can be applied to other countries as well as to other fields of public health practice. Topics discussed include:
*structural prevention, a concept which unites political and behavioural change
*the synchronistic relationship between AIDS policy and gay politics
*the dominance of love and intimacy over other 'risk factors'
*an approach to prevention among drug users which emphasis human rights and accepts the using behaviour
*a unique partnership between public authorities and the voluntary sector
*services for women working in cross-national border prostitution
*an AIDS survivor syndrome among gay men
*HIV in the context of emotional risks taken by women in relationships.
In addition, specifically German themes are described, including special needs of gay men from the former East Germany, the difficulties of providing adequate outpatient care for people with HIV/AIDS and the history of the AIDS prevention debate in Germany.
The book offers medical, nursing, public health, sociological, psychological and social work perspectives on the German response to AIDS.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Introduction
part |2 pages
PART II History, policy, and epidemiology
chapter 4|13 pages
From hysteria to banality: an overview of the political response to AIDS in Germany
chapter 5|13 pages
The role of the German Federal Government in fighting the epidemic
chapter 7|9 pages
Structural prevention: the basis for a critical approach to health promotion STEFAN ETGETON
chapter 8|9 pages
The German AIDS self-help movement: the history and ongoing role of AIDS-Hilfe
part |2 pages
Part III Risk perception and decision making in safer sex
chapter 9|13 pages
Reactions of the general population to AIDS: the relationship between sociodemographic variables and lay concepts of disease aetiology
chapter 10|13 pages
AIDS prevention as a social systems intervention: risk taking in the context of different types of heterosexual partnerships
part |2 pages
Part IV Responding to specific target groups
chapter 12|14 pages
The response of gay German men to HIV: the national gay press surveys 1987–96
chapter 13|17 pages
Western-style prevention for eastern gay men? AIDS prevention in the former East Germany
chapter 15|11 pages
The meaning of HIV prevention in the context of heterosexual relationships
chapter 16|11 pages
The Umbrella Network: AIDS, STD prevention, and prostitution on the eastern border of Germany
part |2 pages
Part V The future of AIDS policy and practice