Preventing AIDS : Community-Science Collaborations

ISBN-13: 9780789012340 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 356 str.

Benjamin P. Bowser; Shiraz I. Mishra; Cathy J. Reback

Opis

Bowser (sociology and social services, California State University) collects funders' perspectives on collaborative AIDS research in this guide to cooperative efforts between researchers and community-based organizations. Academics in community medicine and directors of community organizations, all based in California, discuss issues related to the

Spis treści

• About the Editors
  
• Contributors
  
• Preface
  
• Chapter 1. Introduction to Community-Science Collaboration: Equal Partners in Investigation (Benjamin P. Bowser and Shiraz I. Mishra)
  
• Collaboration
  
• CREPC
  
• Chapter 2. Collaborative AIDS Research: A Funder’s Perspective (Bart K. Aoki, Roger K. Myrick, George F. Lemp, and Steve Truax)
  
• The Values of Collaborative Research
  
• Challenges to Community Collaboration and HIV Prevention Research
  
• Opportunities Offered by Collaborative HIV Prevention Research
  
• Funding for Community Research on AIDS: UARP
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 3. Preventing AIDS Among Injectors and Sex Workers (Gloria Lockett, Carla Dillard-Smith, and Benjamin P. Bowser)
  
• Beginning of Collaboration
  
• Methods
  
• Results and Collaborative Findings
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 4. Collaborative Research Toward HIV Prevention Among Migrant Farmworkers (Shiraz I. Mishra, Fernando Sanudo, and Ross F. Conner)
  
• The Collaboration
  
• The Study
  
• Research Findings
  
• Conclusion: Lessons Learned
  
• Appendix: Recruitment Criteria and Sample Size of Farmworkers
  
• Chapter 5. A Health Promotion Intervention for Prison Inmates with HIV (Barry Zack, Olga Grinstead, and Bonnie Faigeles)
  
• Introduction
  
• Justification
  
• Methods
  
• Evaluation Plan (Research Design)
  
• Results
  
• Discussion
  
• Chapter 6. The Los Angeles Transgender Health Study: Creating a Research and Community Collaboration (Cathy J. Reback and Paul Simon)
  
• Introduction
  
• Study Objectives
  
• The Collaboration Team
  
• Study Design
  
• The Study
  
• Findings
  
• Future Analyses
  
• Benefits and Challenges of Collaboration
  
• Chapter 7. Critical Collaborations in Serving High-Risk Women: The PHREDA Project (Geraldine Oliva, Jennifer Rienks, and Lisa Netherland)
  
• Background
  
• The Three Phases of PHREDA
  
• Benefits and Challenges of Collaboration
  
• Challenges to Research
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 8. The Challenges and Rewards of Collaborative Research: The UFO Study (Kristen Ochoa, Rachel McLean, Heather Edney-Meschery, Dante Brimer, and Andrew Moss)
  
• A Typical Day in the UFO Study
  
• Introduction
  
• Doing Research Differently
  
• The Study
  
• Beginning in the Middle
  
• The Community Collaborator’s Perspective
  
• The Santa Cruz Needle Exchange
  
• The Peer Interviewer/Counselor Perspective
  
• The Researcher’s Perspective
  
• Where We Are Now
  
• Chapter 9. Synthesis of Case Studies and Service Providers’ Reactions (Benjamin P. Bowser and Lisa M. Krieger)
  
• Part I: Meta-Analysis of Case Studies
  
• Part II: Assessing CREPC
  
• Chapter 10. Conclusion (Benjamin P. Bowser, Shiraz I. Mishra, Cathy J. Reback, and George F. Lemp)
  
• The Challenge
  
• Business As Usual
  
• New Business: Grounded Research and Services
  
• Equal Partner Collaboration
  
• Final Word: This Is Only a Beginning
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included
  

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