โ Scribed by Rolf Rosenbrock, Michael Wright
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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.
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 11
List of tables......Page 12
List of contributors......Page 14
Acknowledgement......Page 18
Introduction......Page 20
Pragmatism and partnership: an overview of this volume......Page 22
AIDS in a German context: a primer......Page 26
History, policy, and epidemiology......Page 32
The epidemiology of HIV and AIDS in Germany......Page 34
From hysteria to banality: an overview of the political response to AIDS in Germany......Page 54
The role of the German Federal Government in fighting the epidemic......Page 67
AIDS prevention campaigns for the general public: the work of the Federal Centre for Health Education......Page 80
Structural prevention: the basis for a critical approach to health promotion......Page 92
The German AIDS self-help movement: the history and ongoing role of AIDS-Hilfe......Page 101
Risk perception and decision making in safer sex......Page 110
Reactions of the general population to AIDS: the relationship between sociodemographic variables and lay concepts of disease aetiology......Page 112
AIDS prevention as a social systems intervention: risk taking in the context of different types of heterosexual partnerships......Page 125
The 'risk factor love'......Page 138
Responding to specific target groups......Page 146
The response of gay German men to HIV: the national gay press surveys 1987 96......Page 148
Western-style prevention for eastern gay men? AIDS prevention in the former East Germany......Page 162
The accepting approach to working with drug users in Germany: an overview of principles, goals and methods......Page 179
The meaning of HIV prevention in the context of heterosexual relationships: what are women protecting themselves from?......Page 190
The Umbrella Network: AIDS, STD prevention, and prostitution on the eastern border of Germany......Page 201
Innovation versus normalisation: the reaction of Germany's home care system to HIV and AIDS......Page 212
Defining the AIDS Survivor Syndrome and testing for symptoms in an exploratory study of gay German men......Page 226
AIDS policy, health policy, and gay politics......Page 235
The future of AIDS policy and practice......Page 248
The normalisation of AIDS in Germany......Page 250
Index......Page 268
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