A Community Approach to AIDS Intervention: Exploring the Miami Outreach Project for Injecting Drug Users and Other High Risk Groups

Written by researchers at a federally funded outreach programme to combat the spread of AIDS, this book analyzes the efforts of the Miami Community Outreach Project to intervene in AIDS-related risk behaviour among intravenous drug users and their sexual partners. The work provides background information on the history of AIDS, the risk behaviours of drug abusers, and federal intervention programmes. It discusses the prevalence of the HIV virus in the Miami area and gives a detailed description of the project, discussing the theoretical basis for the project, the intervention strategies used, the rationale behind those strategies, and the results achieved.